Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Morning, Unique, Love Of My Life

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor

• ...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Morning, Soul, Desire

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.12, Anchor

• They themselves mocked Africa, trading stories of absurdity, of stupidity, and they felt safe to mock, because it was a mockery born of longing, and of the heartbroken desire to see a place made whole again.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Heartbroken, Stupidity, Desire

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2013). “Americanah”, p.153, Anchor

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