# Quote — Abi Dare, The Girl with the Louding Voice

> I tear to pieces the paper, and throw it to the floor. Then I swim deep inside the river of my soul, find the key from where it is sitting, full of rust, at the bottom of the river, and open the lock. I kneel down beside my bed, close my eyes, turn myself into a cup, and pour the memory out of me.

- Author: [Abi Dare](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare.md)
- Book: [The Girl with the Louding Voice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abi_Dar%C3%A9#The_Girl_with_the_Louding_Voice_(2020)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice/i-tear-to-pieces

## More from this book

> “My mama say education will give me a voice. I want more than just a voice, Ms. Tia. I want a louding voice,” I say. “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. I want to live in this life and help many people so that when I grow old and die, I will still be living through the people I am helping.“

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice/my-mama-say.md)

> She open her eyes, give me a sad smile. “I wish I am a man, but I am not, so I do the next thing I can do. I marry a man.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice/she-open-her.md)

> When she come out, she draw deep breath and her chest, wide like blackboard, is climbing up and down, up and down. It is as if this woman is using her nostrils to be collecting all the heating from the outside and making us to be catching cold. I am standing beside Mr. Kola, and his body is shaking like my own. Even the trees in the compound, the yellow, pink, blue flowers in the long flowerpot, all of them too are shaking.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/abi-dare/the-girl-with-the-louding-voice/when-she-come.md)