The Death of Vivek Oji
Akwaeke Emezi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Some people can't see softness without wanting to hurt it”
“I'm not what anyone thinks I am. I never was. I didn't have the mouth to put it into words, to say what was wrong, to change the things I felt I needed to change. And every day it was difficult, walking around and knowing that people saw me one way, knowing that they were wrong, so completely wrong, that the real me was invisible to them. It didn't even exist to them. So: If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
“Somewhere, you see, in the river of time, I am already alive.”
“If nobody sees you, are you still there?”
“Ikept the book for the title, for how it was spelled. Beautyful. I had no idea why that spelling was chosen, but I liked it because it kept the beauty intact. It wasn’t swallowed, killed off with an i to make a whole new word. It was solid; it was still there, so much of it that it couldn’t fit into a new word, so much fullness. You got a better sense of exactly what was causing that fullness. Beauty. I wanted to be as whole as that word.”
“Alone is a feeling you can get used to, and it's hard to believe in a better alternative.”
“How much of my mother's life I missed because I was a child”
“Fresh starts were good; that separateness was where you could feel yourself, where you could learn who you were apart from everyone else.”
“Love and guilt sometimes taste the same, you know.”
“His grief was chasing him from room to room, begging him to spend some time alone with it.”
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Book Keywords:
deep-thought, reincarnation, beauty, death, live-your-life, identity
