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> [I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/i-temporarily-became-a-surgeon-for-memory-of-love-i-spent-two-weeks/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

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## More by Aminatta Forna

> [What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/what-ultimately-happened-is-that-my-country-had-a-war-i-think-it/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [“We became friends, I suppose, because we lived close to each other and it suited us and because when you are young friendships go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/we-became-friends-i-suppose-because-we-lived-close-to-each-other-and/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [“Adrian's tone suggested that the desire for something was all it took. They all live with endless possibilities, leave their homes for the sake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/adrian-s-tone-suggested-that-the-desire-for-something-was-all-it-took/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/no-one-ever-sits-you-down-at-age-eight-and-says-aminatta-this-is-what/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [My family's a ruling family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/my-family-s-a-ruling-family/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/i-was-brought-up-in-a-household-where-you-stood-up-to-be-counted/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/all-liars-lie-to-protect-themselves-to-shield-their-egos-from-the-raw/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [“There's something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/there-s-something-uncomfortable-about-looking-at-pictures-of-your/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/i-temporarily-became-a-surgeon-for-memory-of-love-i-spent-two-weeks/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [“How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/how-easily-they-spoke-of-love-and-yet-when-she-d-needed-the-certainty/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/war-had-the-effect-of-encouraging-people-to-try-to-stay-alive-poverty/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [“He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a future, somewhere…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/he-knows-nothing-about-how-this-will-all-end-except-that-it-will/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/i-get-a-very-vague-idea-and-perhaps-because-i-once-was-a-journalist/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [“And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/and-afterwards-if-you-had-asked-any-of-the-survivors-how-they-had/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

> [Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aminatta-forna/increasingly-there-are-those-of-us-who-write-from-outside-the-center/)

[Aminatta Forna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aminatta-forna/)

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