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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Anniversary

born 1977 Nigeria

← All quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

13 quotes

“Writing fiction is the love of my life. It's the thing that I think gives me meaning.”

Notes on Grief (2021)

The language of marriage is often the language of ownership rather than the language of partnership.

I believed then that love had to feel like hunger to be true.

Zikora (2020)

"A gorgeous pitless account of love, violence and betrayal."

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

Age is irrelevant in grief; at issue is not how old he was but how loved.

Notes on Grief (2021)

A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you loved […] The tea was always too hot, always burned my tongue.”

Purple Hibiscus (2003)

"Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?"

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

Love was about this, the nuggets of knowledge about our beloved that we so fluently hold.

Zikora (2020)

And I never told the boy who didn’t love me, the boy I was trying to make love me when I didn’t yet know that you cannot nice your way into being loved.

Zikora (2020)

You can’t nice your way to being loved.

Zikora (2020)

"This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles"

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

I read somewhere that love was about this, the nuggets of knowledge about our beloved that we so fluently hold

Zikora (2020)

It was a joke. Ade Coker was laughing; so was his wife, Yewande. But Papa did not laugh. Jaja and I turned and went back upstairs, silently.

Purple Hibiscus (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.