Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Perhaps I fell in love that day; love happens long before we call it love.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Dream Count

We are in love and then we are not in love. Where does love go when we stop loving?

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Dream Count

I grieved what I did not even know to be true, that there was someone out there who had passed me by, who might not just have loved me but truly known me.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Dream Count

Afam was indoors now, and he looked so fragile on the screen that I thought how breakable we all are, and how easily we forget how breakable we are.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Dream Count

It was as if we could no longer be ourselves because the world was not itself.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Dream Count

I have always longed to be known, truly known, by another human being. Until a crack appears in the sky and widens and reveals us to ourselves, as the pandemic did, because it was during lockdown that I began to sift through my life, and to give names to things long unnamed.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Topics: Dream Count