Top 5 Petina Gappah Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A voice reminds us that the land is ours, it will not be taken from us again; the country will never be a colony again. – ‘Something Nice from London.”

— Petina Gappah

2. “There is only one illness that pushes both the well-wheeled and the un-wheeled to seek out the prophet. It is the big disease with the little name, the sickness that no one dies of, the disease whose real name is unspoken, the sickness that speaks its presence through the pink redness of lips, the slipperiness of hair, through the whites of the eyes whiter than nature intended.”

— Petina Gappah

3. “When we talk of fate, when we talk of a fatalistic vision of human experience, what we mean is that the most important forces that shape human lives are out of human control.”

— Petina Gappah

4. “I had never seen so many books gathered in a single space as I saw in that room. I felt less afraid when I thought of all the other people who seemed to have had harder lives than mine. I disappeared completely to occupy the world of whatever book I was reading.”

— Petina Gappah

5. “They had become a nation of traders.”

— Petina Gappah

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