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Top 25 Aminatta Forna Quotes (2024 Update)

Aminatta Forna Quote: “If you want to know a country, read its writers.”

1. “If you want to know a country, read its writers.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.”

2. “What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “I learned about women – how we are made into the women we’ve become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.”

3. “I learned about women – how we are made into the women we’ve become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “Homesickness was an adjustment disorder, that was the long and short of it.”

4. “Homesickness was an adjustment disorder, that was the long and short of it.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.”

5. “War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “Love is a gamble, the stake is the human heart. The lover holds his or her cards close, lays them out one at a time and watches each move of the other player. To whom do you go first? This is the ‘tell’ of love. When a thing happens, be it good or bad, when you pick up the telephone or push through a crowd, who is it you most want to reach?”

6. “Love is a gamble, the stake is the human heart. The lover holds his or her cards close, lays them out one at a time and watches each move of the other player. To whom do you go first? This is the ‘tell’ of love. When a thing happens, be it good or bad, when you pick up the telephone or push through a crowd, who is it you most want to reach?”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.”

7. “What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their labels don’t understand either.”

8. “Writers do not write about places, they write about people who happen to live in those places. This is something that the labellers and their labels don’t understand either.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “The reckless open their arms and topple into love, as do dreamers, who fly in their dreams without fear or danger. Those who know that all love must end in loss do not fall but rather cross slowly from the not knowing into the knowing.”

9. “The reckless open their arms and topple into love, as do dreamers, who fly in their dreams without fear or danger. Those who know that all love must end in loss do not fall but rather cross slowly from the not knowing into the knowing.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “Hitler, Pol Pot. Funny, isn’t it? How it only seems to be evil people who think they can change the world? I wonder why that is.’ And Kai had responded, ‘Because they’re mad.’ She had dug a sharp elbow into his ribs. Then she shook her head. ‘But they do, don’t they? They do change the world.”

10. “Hitler, Pol Pot. Funny, isn’t it? How it only seems to be evil people who think they can change the world? I wonder why that is.’ And Kai had responded, ‘Because they’re mad.’ She had dug a sharp elbow into his ribs. Then she shook her head. ‘But they do, don’t they? They do change the world.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “I’m a scientist, I should never have used the word coincidence. There’s less synchronicity and more causality than we often think. Things happen. Sometimes in ways we couldn’t even start to imagine.”

11. “I’m a scientist, I should never have used the word coincidence. There’s less synchronicity and more causality than we often think. Things happen. Sometimes in ways we couldn’t even start to imagine.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “He selected some music and thought that he would dance, but he failed. Instead he turned up the music until it smothered the sound of the dead woman weeping in his heart.”

12. “He selected some music and thought that he would dance, but he failed. Instead he turned up the music until it smothered the sound of the dead woman weeping in his heart.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “I sought solace in the very thing that caused me pain.”

13. “I sought solace in the very thing that caused me pain.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.”

14. “I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.”

15. “A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?”

16. “But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.”

17. “The Watch is a powerful tale, courageous both in concept and creation: an ancient tale made modern, passed through different narrators in extraordinary shape-shifting prose that makes this not just an important novel, but a remarkable read.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.”

18. “Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “He seemed to remember a sense of fearlessness as a child, for lacking the knowledge of death, he supposed, for still believing bad things happened only to other people. How long you held on to that particular belief depended on where you were born.”

19. “He seemed to remember a sense of fearlessness as a child, for lacking the knowledge of death, he supposed, for still believing bad things happened only to other people. How long you held on to that particular belief depended on where you were born.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “Adrian hears the echo of his own thoughts of earlier in the day, only differently stated. The silent lie.”

20. “Adrian hears the echo of his own thoughts of earlier in the day, only differently stated. The silent lie.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.”

21. “Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “She liked him, had liked him, but now all she felt was the faint but real distaste a woman feels for the lover she no longer desires.”

22. “She liked him, had liked him, but now all she felt was the faint but real distaste a woman feels for the lover she no longer desires.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “I had spent my whole life trying not to be like my mother. I had taken the opposite path and hurried along it, all the time looking over my shoulder instead of ahead, so that I failed to see how the path curved back again in the same direction.”

23. “I had spent my whole life trying not to be like my mother. I had taken the opposite path and hurried along it, all the time looking over my shoulder instead of ahead, so that I failed to see how the path curved back again in the same direction.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “There is nothing inevitable about the impact of trauma, except perhaps the way the victim is going to be treated by professionals like us, who will then ascribe every subsequent difficulty in their lives to what has happened to them in the past. We don’t blame victims any longer, instead we condemn them. We treat them like damaged goods and in so doing we compound the pain of whatever wound has been inflicted and we encourage everyone around them to do the same.”

24. “There is nothing inevitable about the impact of trauma, except perhaps the way the victim is going to be treated by professionals like us, who will then ascribe every subsequent difficulty in their lives to what has happened to them in the past. We don’t blame victims any longer, instead we condemn them. We treat them like damaged goods and in so doing we compound the pain of whatever wound has been inflicted and we encourage everyone around them to do the same.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “I knew when not to speak, when not to let myself be heard. Silence was my friend, my twin, the other half of me. Silence was my weapon. Not a blustering gun, but an invisible spider’s web.”

25. “I knew when not to speak, when not to let myself be heard. Silence was my friend, my twin, the other half of me. Silence was my weapon. Not a blustering gun, but an invisible spider’s web.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “So, where does it come from, the fury? A thousand indignities, a thousand wrongs, like tiny knife wounds, shredding a person’s humanity. In time only the tattered remnants are left. And in the end they ask themselves – what good is this to me? And they throw the last of it away.”

26. “So, where does it come from, the fury? A thousand indignities, a thousand wrongs, like tiny knife wounds, shredding a person’s humanity. In time only the tattered remnants are left. And in the end they ask themselves – what good is this to me? And they throw the last of it away.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “They were all signs and there would be more, surfacing one by one, floating in front of me like flotsam from a shipwreck. Even when I was drowning I dismissed them all, first with foolishness, then with pride, and finally because I had put out my own eyes with hot pokers of shame.”

27. “They were all signs and there would be more, surfacing one by one, floating in front of me like flotsam from a shipwreck. Even when I was drowning I dismissed them all, first with foolishness, then with pride, and finally because I had put out my own eyes with hot pokers of shame.”

— Aminatta Forna

Aminatta Forna Quote: “Something happened here. A change. Stealthy, creeping, slow. Like the way the desert is gradually covering the plain, one grain of sand at a time. It took place without us even noticing, so that the moment when we might have resisted passed unremarked.”

28. “Something happened here. A change. Stealthy, creeping, slow. Like the way the desert is gradually covering the plain, one grain of sand at a time. It took place without us even noticing, so that the moment when we might have resisted passed unremarked.”

— Aminatta Forna

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