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81 " pillow on "
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Half of a Yellow Sun
82 " ...men hans osäkerhet tystade honom varje gång; han var rädd för vad hon skulle svara. "
83 " Hon misstänkte alltid att han hade rätt. "
84 " Du kan inte skriva ett manuskript i huvudet och tvinga dig själv att följa det. Du måste låta dig själv vara, Richard "
85 " Nu vet jag att inget han gör kommer att förändra mitt liv. Mitt liv kommer bara att förändras om jag vill att det ska förändras. "
86 " Master was a little crazy; he had spent too many years reading books overseas, talked to himself in his office, did not always return greetings, and had too much hair. "
87 " Of course, of course, but my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe,’ Master said. ‘I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came. "
88 " She would not place her memory on things that strangers could barge in and take away. "
89 " she feared that marriage would flatten it to a prosaic partnership. "
90 " I'm going on. Life is the same,' he told Kainene. 'I should be reacting; things should be different. "
91 " Tienen una energía desbordante, de veras, pero me temo que muy poca higiene». Le explicó que los hausas del norte eran gente muy digna, los igbos eran ariscos y amantes del dinero, y los yorubas eran sobre todo alegres aunque también muy aduladores. Los sábados por la noche, al mostrarle a las multitudes vestidas con prendas llamativas que bailaban frente a los toldos callejeros iluminados, le decía: «Ahí los tienes. Los yorubas se endeudan hasta la médula con tal de montar estas fiestas». "
92 " We are living in a time of great white evil. They are dehumanizing blacks in South Africa and Rhodesia, they fermented what happened in the Congo, they won’t let American blacks vote, they won’t let the Australian aborigines vote, but the worst of all is what they are doing here. This defense pact is worse than apartheid and segregation, but we don’t realize it. "
93 " They laughed and she sensed, between them, a vulgar and delicious female bond. "
94 " Grandpapa used to say, about difficulties he had gone through, ‘It did not kill me, it made me knowledgeable.’O gburo m egbu, o mee ka m malu ife. "
95 " There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable,” Kainene said. There was a pause. Inside Olanna, something calcified leaped to life. "
96 " Sometimes I hate them,” Kainene said. “The vandals.” “No, them.” Kainene pointed back at the room. “I hate them for dying. "
97 " 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 often felt around him. "
98 " I now know that nothing he does will make my life change. My life will change only if I want it to change. "
99 " You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. "
100 " Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. "