Quotes from book

Purple Hibiscus

“People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.”

“We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.”

“I was stained by failure.”

“… he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.”

“The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?”

“I cannot control even the dreams that I have made.”

“There was a helplessness to his joy, the same kind of helplessness as in that woman’s despair.”

“God is big enough to do his own job. If God will judge our father for choosing to follow the way of our ancestors, then let God do the judging, not Eugene.”