Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The world could not define her. She was ineffably, inimitably, and incredibly herself!”

— Avijeet Das

“She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.”

— Helen Oyeyemi

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not…

— Chris Cleave

“it was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself.”

— John Updike

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“And she liked it. The power over this man. The ability to choose who survived. To take lives and twist them as she pleased.…

— Michael Walterich

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She felt everything so deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.”

— Joyce Maynard

“Everything in her life was in flux and she needed strong, steady and stable. Oddly, she found those three things in me. Who would…

— Katie McGarry

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“She knew exactly what kind of people were behind her, and what they were doing.”

— Neil D'Silva