Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

Quotes

1. My tender triceps started grumbling

   p. 19

2. 

   Boniface — aka Cash Daddy — is an exuberant character who suffers from elephantiasis of the pocket. He's also rumored to run a successful empire of email scams. But he can help. With Cash Daddy's intervention, Kingsley and his family can be as safe as a tortoise in its shell.

   p. 50

3. 

   For much of his young life, Kingsley believed that education was everything, that through wisdom, all things were possible. Now he worries that without a 'long-leg' — someone who knows someone who can help him — his degrees will do nothing but adorn the walls of his parents' low-rent house.

   p. 28

4. 

   Although his position on the family tree could not be described in anything less than seven sentences, Odinkemmelu was introduced to us as our cousin.

   p. 24

5. 

   Odinkemmelu took his body odor away to the kitchen and returned with a teaspoon of salt.

   p. 17

6. 

   Kingsley’s mother, Augustina discovers his wealth is derived from fraudulent 419 scams triggering a dramatic confrontation and profound emotional estrangement. Kingsley argues that his illegal actions were necessary sacrifices for his family's survival while his mother rejects this. In her own view, honorable poverty over tainted money.

   p. 38

7. 

   He brought out an it-was-white handkerchief from his trouser pocket and wiped the sweat from his brows.

   p. 59

8. 

   When a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in Nigeria, but it's money that does the talking.

   p. 35

9. 

   Unconditional family support may be the way in Nigeria, but when Kingsley turns to his Uncle Boniface for help, he learns that charity may come with strings attached.

   p. 44

10. 

    Make una come see o, Graveyard don begin dey use perfume.

    p. 29

11. 

    My father was a walking encyclopedia, and he flipped his pages with the zeal and precision of a magician.

    p. 22

12. 

    Dear Friend, I do not come to you by chance. Upon my quest for a trusted and reliable foreign business man or company I was given your contact by the Nigerian chamber of Commerce and Industry, I hope that you can be trusted to handle a transaction of this magnitude.

    p. 178