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Top 25 Chinelo Okparanta Quotes (2025 Update)

Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Suddenly she could see her future in the relationship: a lifetime of feeling like an afterthought.”

1. “Suddenly she could see her future in the relationship: a lifetime of feeling like an afterthought.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Man and wife, the Bible said. It was a nice thought, but only in the limited way that theoretical things often are.”

2. “Man and wife, the Bible said. It was a nice thought, but only in the limited way that theoretical things often are.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “I suppose it’s the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else’s tragedy.”

3. “I suppose it’s the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else’s tragedy.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “I acknowledge to myself that sometimes I am a snail. I move myself by gliding. I contract my muscles and produce a slime of tears. Sometimes you see the tears and sometimes you don’t. It is my tears that allow me to glide.”

4. “I acknowledge to myself that sometimes I am a snail. I move myself by gliding. I contract my muscles and produce a slime of tears. Sometimes you see the tears and sometimes you don’t. It is my tears that allow me to glide.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “All the things the boy will do, I promise to do better. In all the ways he can love you, I promise to love you better.”

5. “All the things the boy will do, I promise to do better. In all the ways he can love you, I promise to love you better.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Love – the greatest connection to humanity when everything else is falling apart.”

6. “Love – the greatest connection to humanity when everything else is falling apart.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.”

7. “Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.”

8. “There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “If this was the rice that God was putting in my basket... there was no point wishing for soup.”

9. “If this was the rice that God was putting in my basket... there was no point wishing for soup.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Sometimes we get confused about what happiness really means. Sometimes we get confused about what path to take to get to happiness.”

10. “Sometimes we get confused about what happiness really means. Sometimes we get confused about what path to take to get to happiness.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “The absence of any kind of communication from her was not at all like an absence. It was instead a presence: of mind-pain, like a thick, rusted arrow shooting straight into my head, poisoning my mind with something like tetanus, causing my thoughts to go haywire, a spasm here, a spasm there.”

11. “The absence of any kind of communication from her was not at all like an absence. It was instead a presence: of mind-pain, like a thick, rusted arrow shooting straight into my head, poisoning my mind with something like tetanus, causing my thoughts to go haywire, a spasm here, a spasm there.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Maybe love was some combination of friendship and infatuation. A deeply felt affection accompanied by a certain sort of awe. And by gratitude. And by a desire for a lifetime of togetherness.”

12. “Maybe love was some combination of friendship and infatuation. A deeply felt affection accompanied by a certain sort of awe. And by gratitude. And by a desire for a lifetime of togetherness.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Let peace be. Let life be.”

13. “Let peace be. Let life be.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “And now she began muttering to herself. “God, who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.”

14. “And now she began muttering to herself. “God, who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Also, what if Adam and Ever were merely symbols of companionship? And Eve, different from him, woman instead of man, was simply a tool by which God noted that companionship was something you got from a person outside yourself? What if that’s all it was? And why not?”

15. “Also, what if Adam and Ever were merely symbols of companionship? And Eve, different from him, woman instead of man, was simply a tool by which God noted that companionship was something you got from a person outside yourself? What if that’s all it was? And why not?”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “You’ll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You’ll marry your degrees?”

16. “You’ll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You’ll marry your degrees?”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “With a man, life is difficult. Without a man, life is even more difficult.”

17. “With a man, life is difficult. Without a man, life is even more difficult.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Business is the reason for words like ‘abomination.’ The Church is the oldest and most successful business known to man, because it knows not only how to recruit customers but also how to control them with things like doctrines and words like ’abomination.”

18. “Business is the reason for words like ‘abomination.’ The Church is the oldest and most successful business known to man, because it knows not only how to recruit customers but also how to control them with things like doctrines and words like ’abomination.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “The power of science. Sometimes she thought how one day even love might become like a science. Everyone saying exactly the same right words. Everyone reacting the same exact ways. Love feeling and tasting and looking exactly the way some scientists in some laboratory determined that it should. Perhaps a development like that would solve many romantic disputes, maybe even bring down divorce rates to a cool zero percent.”

19. “The power of science. Sometimes she thought how one day even love might become like a science. Everyone saying exactly the same right words. Everyone reacting the same exact ways. Love feeling and tasting and looking exactly the way some scientists in some laboratory determined that it should. Perhaps a development like that would solve many romantic disputes, maybe even bring down divorce rates to a cool zero percent.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “She smiled just a little, as if to hide how powerful the words made her feel, but Chinasa saw it all the same: the way her face seemed to say that she had gotten the vengeance she sought. The kind of vengeance that turned love into a weapon. Tit for tat. You do me, I do you.”

20. “She smiled just a little, as if to hide how powerful the words made her feel, but Chinasa saw it all the same: the way her face seemed to say that she had gotten the vengeance she sought. The kind of vengeance that turned love into a weapon. Tit for tat. You do me, I do you.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “If theirs was a goal of arriving at versions of themselves that they deemed better – perhaps more valuable – than their current selves, then who could blame them? And yet, they were in fact to be blamed.”

21. “If theirs was a goal of arriving at versions of themselves that they deemed better – perhaps more valuable – than their current selves, then who could blame them? And yet, they were in fact to be blamed.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “I was finding myself forced to acknowledge that the limit of my imagination was by no means the limit of the world.”

22. “I was finding myself forced to acknowledge that the limit of my imagination was by no means the limit of the world.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Hardly have I finished speaking the words, and she vanishes, the way that people sometimes do, even from our minds.”

23. “Hardly have I finished speaking the words, and she vanishes, the way that people sometimes do, even from our minds.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “I suppose it’s the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else’s tragedy. Though it is true, too, that sometimes it’s hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.”

24. “I suppose it’s the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else’s tragedy. Though it is true, too, that sometimes it’s hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “I had become a little like a coffin: I felt a hollowness in me and a rattling at my seams.”

25. “I had become a little like a coffin: I felt a hollowness in me and a rattling at my seams.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “This, it seems to me, is the lesson of the Bible: this affirmation of the importance of reflection, and of revision, enough revision to do away with the tired, old, even faulty laws.”

26. “This, it seems to me, is the lesson of the Bible: this affirmation of the importance of reflection, and of revision, enough revision to do away with the tired, old, even faulty laws.”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Chinasa continued to imagine the girl, a small, veil-wearing child with fear written all over her face, running for dear life. Soon she could see herself as the girl, running and running like the girl. But there was only so far her imagination could take her: She herself had never been a runner. And anyway, how fast did one have to run to outrun a bomb?”

27. “Chinasa continued to imagine the girl, a small, veil-wearing child with fear written all over her face, running for dear life. Soon she could see herself as the girl, running and running like the girl. But there was only so far her imagination could take her: She herself had never been a runner. And anyway, how fast did one have to run to outrun a bomb?”

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Chinelo Okparanta Quote: “Aunty, whatever the matter, just remember that it is the same moon that wanes today that will be full tomorrow. And even the sun, however long it disappears, it always shines again.”

28. “Aunty, whatever the matter, just remember that it is the same moon that wanes today that will be full tomorrow. And even the sun, however long it disappears, it always shines again.”

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