"The Famished Road" Quotes
A Nigerian boy navigates the spiritual and physical realms in search of purpose and belonging.
fiction | 592 pages | Published in 2015
Quotes
In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.
To be alive is to be disjointed and half orphaned.
I do not see myself as a coward. I am too weak to be one.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
A loneliness came upon me, but I was not lonely. There is a distinction.
What one person says is a different thing from what another person hears.
Every misfortune is an opportunity to be seized.
Jealousy and hatred are like twin children eating you from inside.
Some things are too big to be seen; they loom like giants. Things too distant to be heard; they thunder lesser beings to death.
The things people believe shine out in signs that reveal everything about them.
