Half of a Yellow Sun

"A gorgeous pitless account of love, violence and betrayal."

"This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles"

"...my point is that the only authentic identity for the African is the tribe...I am Nigerian because a white man created Nigeria and gave me that identity. I am black because the white man constructed black to be as different as possible from his white. But I was Igbo before the white man came."

"Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness?"

"There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable."

"This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see."

"The truth has become an insult."

"Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him."

"Greatness depends on where you are coming from."