749 Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know."

"Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the things he was seeing but of the photos he would take of them and of the people who would see those photos. The people who would know that he had participated in these triumphs."

"The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said."

"There were emotions she wanted to hold in the palm of her hand that were simply no longer there."

"The Red Cross irritated Ugwu; the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour."

"There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers."

"We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present."

"Ella no entendía el grunge , la idea de ofrecer un aspecto sucio porque podias permitirte no ir sucio, era una burla para los verdaderamente sucios."

"She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village woman; she should not keep thinking of all the retorts she could have made instead of just standing mutely in that kitchen. But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo's expression, as if he could not believe she was not quite as high-minded as he had thought."

"There are many different ways to be poor in the world but increasingly there seems to be one single way to be rich."