Quotes from book
Purple Hibiscus

Name: Purple Hibiscus
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Purple Hibiscus is a novel written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It was first published by Algonquin Books in 2003.

“Being defiant can be a good thing sometimes," Aunty Ifeoma said. "Defiance is like marijuana - it is not a bad thing when it is used right.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

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“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.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

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“I was stained by failure.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

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“… 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.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

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“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?”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Purple Hibiscus (2003)

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus (2003)

“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.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie book Purple Hibiscus

Source: Purple Hibiscus (2003)

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