Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But the thing about people who mean everything they say is that they rarely say anything else, because they don't have to.

She had learned that the thing about men- they rarely let you down all at once. They disappoint you a little at a time.

The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head.

The thing around your neck is a rope and they have pulled it just enough so that you can breathe, can think, can eat, can sleep.

It is the burden that is the worst, the thing that keeps you walking with your head down and your eyes on the ground and your back bent, and your spirit in your belly, the heaviness that makes you old.

The thing about getting your period is that you never think it will happen to you until it does.

That was the thing about America, the way you could be a stranger even to yourself.

She liked the thingness of things, the solid truth of them, the way they didn't shiver and shift depending on who was looking.

The thing about a man is that his clothes are supposed to look like they were made for him, even if they weren't.

It is a thing that happens to other people, that happens to people in newspapers, not to us, not to me.

The thing about the second wife is that she never really stops being the second wife.

It is the thing we make, the thing we do, the thing we build, the thing we do not have to do alone.