Aunty Uju Quotes & Sayings

Please don't speak Igbo to him,' Aunty Uju said. 'Two languages will confuse him.'
'What are you talking about, Aunty? We spoke two languages growing up.'
'This is America. It's different. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Like many other natural wonders, the human mind is something of a bag of tricks, cobbled together over the eons by the foresightless process of evolution by natural selection. — Daniel C. Dennett

When Ifemelu met Obinze, she told Aunty Uju that she had met the love of her life, and Aunty Uju told her to let him kiss and touch but not to let him put it inside — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Three things. Three things are all I'll ever ask of you. Never lie to me, never say anything you don't mean, and always give me your pleasure. It's the only things I'll ever want. ~Grayson Mandrake — Marie Skye

When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied. — Sunday Adelaja

I think a lot of people see, obviously, the business side of my father. But, I mean, he's just a great guy. We enjoyed the holidays so much. To be able to spend time with him when he's not necessarily working or not doing the political thing, I mean, he's much more of a blue collar American. — Donald Trump Jr.

Grayson folded his arms over his Adonis-like chest, tapping out an imaginary
beat on his forearm. "Just don't want you to string some poor sucker along,
knowing you could never give yourself one hundred percent."

"Should I be more like you? How many broken hearts have you left tangled in
the sheets?" I slid into a pair of faded low-rise jeans. — Jenn Windrow

If you choose to forget all other things, remember only this and you will never fail: you are awesome, in the most total sense of the word. — Kim Huggens

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death. — Jack Black

Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake. — Lemony Snicket

Fountains are more romantic when you don't hate the person you're with. — Dov Davidoff

Ifemelu stood by the window while Aunty Uju sat at the table drinking orange juice and airing her grievances like jewels. It had become a routine of Ifemelu's visits: Aunty Uju collected all her dissatisfactions in a silk purse, nursing them, polishing them, and then on the Saturday of Ifemelu's visit, while Bartholomew was out and Dike upstairs, she would spill them out on the table, and turn each one this way and that, to catch the light. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You gave him what he wanted," Curt said. The planes of his face were hardening. It was an odd thing for Curt to say, the sort of thing Aunty Uju, who thought of sex as something a woman gave a man at a loss to herself, would say. In a sudden giddy fit of recklessness, she corrected Curt. "I took what I wanted. If I gave him anything, then it was incidental. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Don't decide how you feel about something before you try it. — Rick Yancey

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more. — Frank Black