Chigozie Obioma Quotes

Listen, days decay, like food, like fish, like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget.

in Umuahia, a town in the land of the great fathers...

That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.

For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less.

Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome

I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what become permanent can be indestructible

Loneliness is the violent dog that barks interminably through the long night of grief.

You’re a beautiful man.

Hatred is a leech: The thing that sticks to a person's skin; that feeds off them and drains the sap out of one's spirit. It changes a person, and does not leave until it has sucked the last drop of peace from them.

Time is not a living creature that can listen to pleas, nor is it a man who can delay.

They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra in which all there was to do was cry and wail.

The true being of a man is hidden behind the wall of flesh and blood from the eyes of everyone else, including his own.

Mother was a falconer. The one who stood on the hills and watched, trying to stave off whatever ill she perceived was coming to her children. She owned copies of our minds in the pockets of her own mind and so could easily sniff troubles early in their forming, the same way sailors discern the forming foetus of a coming storm.

I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings

Even in his most extroverted moment, a man is concealed from others. For he cannot be fully known.