749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out."
"One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad."
"You know it was love at first sight for both of us," he said."
"You know it was love at first sight for both of us," he said."For both of us? Is it by force? Why are you speaking for me?""I'm just stating a fact. Stop struggling."..."Yes, it's a fact," she said."What?""I love you."
"Fear. I was familiar with fear, yet each time I felt it, it was never the same as the other times, as though it came in different flavors and colors."
"Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever."
"At first Ifemelu thought Kimberly's apologizing sweet, even if unnecessary, but she had begun to feel a flash of impatience, because Kimberly's repeated apologies were tinged with self-indulgence, as though she believed that she could, with apologies, smooth all the scalloped surfaces of the world."