An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma
Top 10 Best Quotes
“They were the minorities of this world whose only recourse was to join this universal orchestra in which all there was to do was cry and wail.”
“Indeed, hatred is a vandalism of the human heart.”
“Even in his most extroverted moment, a man is concealed from others. For he cannot be fully known.”
“silence is often a fortress into which a broken man retreats, for it is here that he communes with his mind,”
“He cannot be fully seen by those who look at him, nor can he be fully touched by those who embrace him.”
“Time is not a living creature that can listen to pleas, nor is it a man who can delay.”
“The true being of a man is hidden behind the wall of flesh and blood from the eyes of everyone else, including his own.”
“The daily life of lovers often begins to share resemblances, so that, in time, each day becomes indistinguishable from the one that came before it. The lovers carry each other's words in their hearts when apart and when together; they laugh; they talk; they make love; they argue; they eat; they tend to poultry together; they watch television and dream about a future together. This way, time slips and memories accrue until their union becomes the sum of all the words they have said to each other, their laughter, their love-making, their arguments, their eating, their work with the poultry, and all the things they have done together. When that are not with each other, night becomes to them an undesirable thing. They despair at the masking of the sun and wait eagerly for the night, this cosmic sheet that has separated them from their beloved, to pass in fervent haste.”
“often leaving him with a crushing envy for a version of himself that never was.”
“as night fell, he gave in to the dark thoughts.”
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