Odafe Atogun > Quotes

“Who are you?’ one soldier asked in wonder after listening to him play for hours. ‘Are you man or angel?’ He laughed quietly. ‘I’m both,’ he said. ‘I’m man because I live in a cold solitary cell. I’m an angel because I live above my circumstances.’ The”
― Odafe Atogun, Taduno's Song: A Novel

“He knew it was the song of a man broken and rejected by a society very dear to his heart, an adagio of pain, played so beautifully even time became still.”
― Odafe Atogun, Taduno's Song

“He taught them the quality of life you live is not necessarily measured by the amount of comfort you enjoy. He taught them that a life lived with honour and courage in a dungeon is more fruitful than one lived in denial in an ivory tower.”
― Odafe Atogun, Taduno's Song

“I have learned to be a woman of faith and courage. I remember you once told me that holding on to our faith until the end is what matters, even if we fail to realise our miracle.”
― Odafe Atogun, Taduno's Song

“...you can never appeal to the conscience of a greedy man, and you can never pay him enough.”
― Odafe Atogun, Taduno's Song

“Love is a crime when you love one person at the expense of the whole world.”
― Odafe Atogun, Taduno's Song

“And they did not know that the reason why they did not hear him sing was because he was afraid to hear the sound of his own voice.”
― Odafe Atogun, Taduno's Song

“We want to live our lives in peace, not pieces.”
― Odafe Atogun, Taduno's Song