Jaja Quotes

#1. Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been naked.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the figurines on the etagere.(Opening page, 3)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#4. 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.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Horace

#6. As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.

Haruki Murakami

#7. your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.

Dante Alighieri

#8. Cheri was in one of her moods again - probably another fight with meathead Miles. Eric swore she secretly hated her husband, but the one time Eric dared question her feelings, she had flown off the handle

Ania Ahlborn

#9. Pain demands to be felt.

John Green

#10. The true seeing is when there is no seeing.

Shenhui

#11. Naggers always know what they are doing. They weigh up the risks, then they go on and on and on until they get what they want or until they get punched.

Jools Holland

#12. I didn't play football in school, but I've been a fan of football all my life. I have a fair understanding of it. Doing movies about it really helps because you know what makes them work and what doesn't.

Dennis Quaid

#13. When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me - yet - the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

Margaret Atwood

#14. Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity.

Nelson Mandela