Chimamanda Adichie Love Quotes

#1. ...real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved.

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#2. When you are black in America and you fall in love with a white person, race doesn't matter when you're alone together because it's just you and your love. But the minute you step outside, race matters.

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#3. Darkness descended on him, and when it lifted, he knew that he would never see Kainene again and that his world would always be like a candlelit room; he would see things only in shadow, only in half glimpses.

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#4. He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.

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#5. They wore their love like a heavy perfume, exuding a transparent commitment, touching each other, referring to each other,

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#6. Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love.

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#7. 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 to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.

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#8. I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Why do I love him? ... I don't think love has a reason ... I think love comes first and then the reasons follow.

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#11. He picked up the water bottle, drank deeply from it. I watched the ripples in his throat as the water went down. I wished I were the water, going into him, to be with him, one with him. I never envied water so much before.

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#12. My advice is that you wait. You can love without making love. It is a beautiful way of showing your feelings but it brings responsibility, great responsibility, and there is no rush.

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#13. She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles.

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#14. I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her.

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#15. 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 this belonging, this completeness?

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#16. She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself.

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#17. You make me shy," he said.
"Are you serious? Because you make me shy."
"I don't believe anything makes you shy," he said.

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#18. It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope.

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#19. You know it was love at first sight for both of us," he said.
"For both of us? Is it by force? Why are you speaking for me?"
"I'm just stating a fact. Stop struggling."
...
"Yes, it's a fact," she said.
"What?"
"I love you.

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#20. When Ifemelu met Obinze, she told Aunty Uju that she had met the love of her life, and Aunty Uju told her to let him kiss and touch but not to let him put it inside

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#21. There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

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#22. This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.

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#23. This was love, to be eager for tomorrow.

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#24. There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach.

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#25. Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect.

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#26. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist: "Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give to your child.

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#27. 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.

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#28. He realized that what he wanted most of all, with her, was time.

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#29. I think love is the most important thing in life. Whatever kind, however you define it, but I think of it generally as being greatly valued by another human being and greatly valuing another human being.

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#30. Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.

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#31. 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, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

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#32. Her first love, her first lover, the only person with whom she had never felt the need to explain herself.

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