Books I Have Attempted To Read

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Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked-- you can't look at them the same anymore.

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

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"Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone."

The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas

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"Gradually, man has become a fantastic animal that has to fulfill one more condition of existence than any other animal: man has to believe, to know, from time to time why he exists; his race cannot flourish without a periodic trust in life—without faith in reason in life."

The Gay Science

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"...a life cushioned by so much convenience that it is sterile."

The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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"She cannot remember when her idea of God has not been cloudy, like the reflection from a steamy mirror, and she cannot remember ever trying to clean the mirror."

The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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"The woman's crying is private, as though she is carrying out a necessary ritual that involves no one else."

The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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"And so it just seemed to me totally irresponsible for leadership to be involved, to be promoting chaos instead of preventing it. It was in a sense the very end of government itself, where government leaps beyond the precipice, dismisses itself, and joins ranks with crime."

There Was A Country

Chinua Achebe

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"For 18 white men, Europe is aroused. What have they said about our millions? Eighteen white men assisting in the crime of genocide. What do they say about our murdered innocents? How many black dead make one missing white? Mathematicians, please answer me. Is it infinity?"

There Was A Country

Chinua Achebe

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"Nigeria had people of great quality, and what befell us—the corruption, the political ineptitude, the war—was a great disappointment and truly devastating to those of us who witnessed it."

There Was A Country

Chinua Achebe

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"If any group decides on it's own that its culture is not worth talking about, it can stop talking about it. But I don't think anybody can suggest to another person, Please drop your culture; let's use mine. That's the height of arrogance and the boast of imperialism."

There Was A Country

Chinua Achebe

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"It was almost like living in a parallel realm, a dual existence not in any negative sense but in the way a hand has two surfaces, united in purpose but very different in tone, appearance, character, and structure."

There Was A Country

Chinua Achebe

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"There is a certain sense of mystery that I feel when I look back to those times, because things we encounter in life that leave the greatest impressions on us are usually not clear."

There Was A Country

Chinua Achebe