“A gorgeous pitless account of love, violence and betrayal.”

Source: Half of a yellow sun (2006)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update Dec. 1, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "A gorgeous pitless account of love, violence and betrayal." by Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie?
Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie photo
Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie 97
Nigerian writer 1977

Related quotes

Rick Riordan photo
Jack Layton photo

“This gorgeous Chinese girl gets up and I fell in love instantly.”

Jack Layton (1950–2011) Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada

On meeting Olivia Chow for the first time in 1985, May 2003.[citation needed]

Manuel Castells photo

“Politics becomes a horse race, and a tragicomedy motivated by greed, backstage manoeuvres, betrayals, and, often, sex and violence – a genre increasingly indistinguishable from TV scripts.”

Manuel Castells (1942) Spanish sociologist (b.1942)

Source: Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society (2000), p. 13

Osamu Tezuka photo

“I wish that all the ills of society - conformism, laziness, indolence, betrayal, violence, lust, rape - and especially the evils of politics will be represented in the form of an absolute depravity.”

From the Afterword to April 1978 MW , vol. 3, translation by Francesco Nicodemus, Hazard Editions, Milan, 2005, p. 193. ISBN 887502037X

Ayelet Waldman photo
Fernando Pessoa photo
George Orwell photo
Lucille Ball photo

“Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Variant: Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Erica Jong photo

“Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

Related topics