# Half of a Yellow Sun

- Author: [Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.md)
- Quotes: 9
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun

## Quotes

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/a-gorgeous-pitless.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/this-was-love.md)

> "...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."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/my-point-is-that.md)

> "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?"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/is-love-this.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/there-are-some.md)

> "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."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/this-is-our.md)

> "The truth has become an insult."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/the-truth-has.md)

> "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."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/then-she-wished.md)

> "Greatness depends on where you are coming from."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/greatness-depends-on-where.md)