Nsukka Quotes & Sayings

No lights shone beyond the windows of his room. The reflection from the bedside lamp seemed insubstantial as a candle flame; the darkness outside a solid mass, huge and inescapable, that pressed against the panes. His room sat beneath the eaves, where the wind didn't roar but crooned, a sound like mourning doves. — Elizabeth Hand

prickly pears from behind a barbed-wire fence. Faded lettering on the sign, designed as a lasso that had at one — John J. Asher

So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends. — Renata Bowers

When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something terrible. — Mohamed Al-Fayed

You will find my last words in the blue folder. — Max Beerbohm

People who are too uptight make me nervous. — Victoria Chang

And the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins. — Stephen King

Finding a pattern when there is none; missing a pattern when there is one. — Anonymous

Aokpe will always be special because it was the reason Kambili and Jaja first came to Nsukka. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As we drove back to Enugu, I laughed loudly,above Fela's stringent singing. I laughed because Nsukka's untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season. Because the tarred roads spring potholes like surprise presents and the air smells of hills and history and the sunlight scatters the sand and turns it into gold dust. Because Nsukka could free something deep inside your belly that would rise up to your throat and come out as freedom song. As laughter.(299) — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie