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Love Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have an empathetic human quality, or 'emotional truth'. This quality is difficult to…
- How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
- The higher you go, the fewer women there are.
- 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…
- I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.
- Stories matter. Many stories matter.
- Your life belongs to you and you alone.
- 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…
- This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.
- There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.
- I was stained by failure.
- ...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which…
- He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a…
- Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
- And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it.
- Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him…
- Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at…
- Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.
- Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
- He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how…
- Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.
- We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim…
- Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and,…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide