Ifemulu Quotes & Sayings

They kissed slowly, the human traffic of First Avenue taking them into its indifferent arms, the city's special combination of curiosity and resentment. — Boris Fishman

AhthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell."
"It sounds evil."
"It is," I answered, and we parted. — Gail Carson Levine

I poke fun of everybody and everything. And who's easier to make fun of than your mother? — Alexis Stewart

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. — Alexandra David-Neel

this family? No wonder Leah tried to stay away from her aunt. — Yael Levy

There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth. — John Piper

Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-makin g, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library. — Swami Vivekananda

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast. — Charisma Carpenter

Media: the tongue of a nation! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

India cannot be India again until temples become alive again. — Osho

Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea ... creativity and stupid are interchangeable ... because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear. — Richie Norton

Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had ever been, yet she knew that Ranyinudo meant well, and had said what many other Nigerians would say, which was why she had not told anyone else about Dike's suicide attempt since she came back. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie