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Quotes from Half of a yellow sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

born 1977 Nigeria

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8 quotes

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

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

"There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable."

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

"Greatness depends on where you are coming from."

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

"This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see."

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

"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)

"The truth has become an insult."

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

"Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him."

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

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

Half of a yellow sun (2006)

Attribution

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