Quotes by : Aminatta Forna

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too....

How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd....

Adrian's tone suggested that the desire for something was all it took. They all live with endless possibilities,....

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The....

And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been....

The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until....

The artist Paul Klee described drawing a picture as taking a line for a walk. I have borrowed his words....

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself....

A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the....