Top 20 Chigozie Obioma Quotes

#1. I'd once been told that if a man wanted something he did not have, no matter how elusive that thing was, if his feet do not restrain him from chasing it, he would eventually grab it. This was our case.

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#2. Although Christianity had almost cleanly swept through Igbo land, crumbs and pieces of the African traditional religion had eluded the broom.

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#3. The things my brother read shaped him; they became his visions. He believed in them. I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what becomes permanent can be indestructible. This was the case with my brother.

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#4. I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them

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#5. Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome?

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#6. Listen, days decay, like food, like fish,
like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget.

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#7. Even his voice had accrued a certain rancour as though the detritus of words long left unsaid inside the cave of his mouth had become rusty and scattered in tiny bits on the top of his tongue whenever he opened his mouth to speak.

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#8. when the two ventricles of our home - our father and our mother - held silence as the ventricles of the heart retain blood, we could flood the house if we poked them.

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#9. Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.

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#10. He mostly told me stories at night-time, in the near darkness of the room, and I gradually burrowed into the world his words created.

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#11. Ikenna was a fragile, delicate bird; he was a sparrow. Little things could unbridle his soul. Wistful thoughts often combed his melancholic spirit in search of craters to be filled with sorrow.

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#12. I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible.

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#13. But we could not, for if one attempted to look into the future one would see nothing; it was like peeping into a person's earhole.

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#14. He spoke slowly, his voice deeper and louder, every word tacked nine inches deep into the beams of our minds.

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#15. That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.

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#16. I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings

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#17. He was seated alone on a lounge chair in the sitting room, his face veiled with a copy of his favourite newspaper, the Guardian, half reading and half listening to Mother.

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#18. But it was abundant in Canada like leaves in a forest.

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#19. I believe that fiction with its untrammelled nature, speaks to no one, and by so doing, speaks to all.

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#20. All we did for the rest of that evening was sing, the dying sun pitched in a corner of the sky as faint as a nipple on the chest of a teenage girl a distance away.

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