“So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind... When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood – that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.”
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
― Too Much Happiness: Stories
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