Ancient Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Aminatta Forna

My family's a ruling family.

— Aminatta Forna

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

— Aminatta Forna

All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

— Aminatta Forna

“There's something uncomfortable about looking at pictures of your parents at a time when they made each other happy.”

— 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.

— 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…

— 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.

— 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…

— Aminatta Forna