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" 'God knows best,' I said. 'God works in mysterious ways.' And I thought how Papa would be proud that I had said that, how he would approve of my saying that." (289)

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" It was what Aunty Ifeoma did to my cousins, I realized then,  setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them...We did not scale the rod because we believed we could, we scaled it because we were terrified that we couldn't."

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"I felt that I was at home, that I was where I had meant to be for a long time" (179). -Kambili

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"all the professors were white back then" Kambili narration

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"Amaka laughed, a hearty laugh that showed her gap. 'You're funny.' I had never heard that before. I saved it for later, to ruminate over and over that I had made her laugh, that I could make her laugh"(266).

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"The new rains will come down soon"

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"I wanted to say I came in second so that he would know immediately, so that I would acknowledge my failure" (40).

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"Chineke! Bless my son, Eugene. Let the sun not set on his prosperity. Life the curse they have put on him" (168).

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"She was looking at me, but it was not the look I was used to, the one where her eyes held me guilty of things I did not know. It was a different, softer look"(173).

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"She did not even look at me as she spoke. I felt, looking at her, that I was helplessly watching precious flaxen sand slip away between my fingers" (93)

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"'Did you see your Papa-Nnukwu's face in death, Kambili?... He was smiling,' she said. 'He was smiling'" (186).

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"'I knew that when the tea burned my tongue, it burned papa's love into me'" (3).

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"This cannot go on, nwunye m," Aunty Ifeoma said. "When a house in on fire, you run out before the roof collapses on your head."

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"That night, I dreamed I was laughing, but it did not sound like my laughter, although I was not sure what my laughter sounded like"(88).

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"Jaja of Opobo?... and when the British came, he refused to let them control all the trade. He did not sell his should for a bit of gunpowder like the other kings did, so the British exiled him to the West Indies. He never returned to Opobo" (144).

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"and he would reach across and slap me on the face with the casualness of reaching for the pepper shaker"

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"All that cream blended and made the room seem wider, as if it never ended, as if you could not run even if you wanted to, because there was nowhere to run to" (41).

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"Those shoulders that bloomed in Nsukka, that grew wide and capable, have sagged in the thirty-one months that he has been here" (300).