# Quote — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun

> "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?"

- Author: [Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie.md)
- Book: [Half of a Yellow Sun](https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Chimamanda_Ngozi_Adichie#Half_of_a_yellow_sun_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie/half-of-a-yellow-sun/is-love-this

## More from this book

> "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)