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“People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did. It was different for Jaja and me. We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Sometimes life begins when the marriage ends”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
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