35 Quotes by Chigozie Obioma

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    I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them.

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    He was seated alone on a lounge chair in the sitting room, his face veiled with a copy of his favourite newspaper, the Guardian, half reading and half listening to Mother.

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    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.

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    Time is not a living creature that can listen to pleas, nor is it a man who can delay.

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    They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra in which all there was to do was cry and wail.

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    He mostly told me stories at night-time, in the near darkness of the room, and I gradually burrowed into the world his words created.

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    I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible.

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