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.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

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