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“but anyone that dresses and does their hair as carefully as your mom does every single day is unhappy on the inside. She’s trying to hide all her messiness,
“He was still smiling as I quietly turned and went back to the bedroom. I never smiled after we said the rosary back home. None of us did.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Fear. I was familiar with fear, yet each time I felt it, it was never the same as the other times, as though it came in different flavors and colors.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Amaka and Papa-Nnukwu spoke sometimes, their voices low, twining together. They understood each other, using the sparest words. Watching them, I felt a longing for something I knew I would never have.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“When Papa prayed for Papa-Nnukwu, he asked only that God convert him and save him from the raging fires of hell.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Death is healing, it tells us to forgive, it reminds us that we don’t want to die alone.”
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
― A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
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