35 Quotes by Chigozie Obioma

When fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them.

For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.

English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.

Mais il ignorait encore que rien, jamais, n’appartient pleinement à personne.

I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.

He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine-inches deep into the beams of our minds.

Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.

Even his voice had accrued a certain rancour as though the detritus of words long left unsaid inside the cave of his mouth had become rusty and scattered in tiny bits on the top of his tongue whenever he opened his mouth to speak.