Quotes by : Aminatta Forna

I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we....

How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with....

If you want to know a country, read its writers.

At the time he had closed in upon himself, denying her a place of entry. She was tenacious, aggressive....

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

[T]hose most precious memories are hidden in the safest place of all. Safe from fire or floods or war.....

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....

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....