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“And the alpaca?’ she asked, unable to hide the mirth from her voice. Logan grimaced. ‘Harry Styles.’ ‘Harry Styles?’ Jeanie shrieked with glee. ‘Amazing.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café

“Amaka says people love priests because they want to compete with God, they simply want God as a rival. But we are not rivals, God and I, we are simply sharing. I no longer wonder if I have a right to love Father Amadi; I simply go ahead an love him. I no longer wonder if the checks I have been writing to the Missionary Fathers of the Blessed Way are bribes to God; I just go ahead and write them. I no longer Wonder if I chose St. Anderw´s church in Unugu as my new church because the priest there is a Blessed Way Missionary as Father Amadi is; I just go.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

“Jaja’s defiance seemed to me now like Aunty Ifeoma’s experimental purple hibiscus: rare, fragrant with the undertones of freedom, a different kind of freedom from the one the crowds waving green leaves chanted at Government Square after the coup. A freedom to be, to do.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus

“She fit here. She fit with him. His heart thumped the words over and over.”
― Laurie Gilmore, The Pumpkin Spice Café