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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‎

Half of a Yellow Sun

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  • Daria & Zviadhas quoted5 years ago
    Here was a superior tongue, a luminous language, the kind of English he heard on Master’s radio, rolling out with clipped precision. It reminded him of slicing a yam with a newly sharpened knife, the easy perfection in every slice.
  • Fede Federicahas quoted2 years ago
    when it got dark, he turned the light on and marvelled at how bright the bulb that dangled from the ceiling was, how it did not cast long shadows on the wall like the palm oil lamps back home.
  • b3443958182has quoted4 years ago
    But I was Igbo before the white man came
  • Lilohas quoted4 years ago
    half of a yellow sun
  • Lilohas quoted4 years ago
    alf of a yellow sun
  • Lilohas quoted4 years ago
    Unbroken happiness is a bore; it should haveups and downs.
  • Lilohas quoted4 years ago
    “It was to you that I had given my trust and the only way a stranger could tamper with that trust was with your permission. I blamed only you.”
  • Lilohas quoted4 years ago
    Olanna looked up. Her mind was a blank board. “Why do I love him?”

    Edna raised her eyebrows, mouthing but not singing Billie Holiday’s words.

    “I don’t think love has a reason,” Olanna said.

    “Sure it does.”

    “I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.
  • Lilohas quoted4 years ago
    They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not;
  • Lilohas quoted4 years ago
    Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn’t what you are enough?
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