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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‎

Purple hibiscus

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  • Alexandra Lavrovahas quoted7 years ago
    I laughed. It sounded strange, as if I were listening to the recorded laughter of a stranger being played back. I was not sure I had ever heard myself laugh.
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    Above, clouds like dyed cotton wool hang low, so low I feel I can reach out and squeeze the moisture from them. The new rains will come down soon.

    The end.

  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    trees in Abba when we come back, and Jaja will plant purple hibiscus, too, and I’ll plant ixora so we can suck the juices of the flowers.” I am laughing. I reach out and place my arm around Mama’s shoulder and she leans toward me and smiles.
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    I want to hold his hand, but I know he will shake it free. His eyes are too full of guilt to really see me, to see his reflection in my eyes, the reflection of my hero, the brother who tried always to protect me the best he could. He will never think that he did enough, and he will never understand that I do not think he should have done more.
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    “Mama, Jaja doesn’t need knives,” I say. She knows Jaja always eats right from the flask, yet she takes a dinner plate with her every time, changes the colors and patterns weekly.

    “We should have brought them, so he can cut the meat.”

    “He doesn’t cut the meat, he just eats it.” I smile at Mama and reach out to touch her arm, to calm her
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    Mostly, though, she writes about things that she misses and things she longs for, as if she ignores the present to dwell on the past and future.
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    I expected no less, of course.
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    If somebody gave birth when Jaja first came here, the child would be talking now, would be in nursery school.
  • Unicorn Loverhas quoted8 months ago
    Those shoulders that bloomed in Nsukka, that grew wide and capable, have sagged in the thirty-one months that he has been here. Almost three years.
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