Chimamanda Adichie Love Quotes

You make me shy," he said.
"Are you serious? Because you make me shy."
"I don't believe anything makes you shy," he said. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

They wore their love like a heavy perfume, exuding a transparent commitment, touching each other, referring to each other, — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It is one of the things she has come to love about America, the abundance of unreasonable hope. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Her first love, her first lover, the only person with whom she had never felt the need to explain herself. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Love is the most important. The most necessary human emotion. Not just romantic love. Love. The ability of human beings to connect. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

He realized that what he wanted most of all, with her, was time. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

...real deep romantic love, the kind that twists you and wrings you out and makes you breathe through the nostrils of your beloved. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

And it's wrong of you to think that love leaves room for nothing else. It's possible to love something and still condescend to it. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Why do I love him? ... I don't think love has a reason ... I think love comes first and then the reasons follow. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This was love, to be eager for tomorrow. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't want to be a sweetheart. I want to be the fucking love of your life, Curt said with a force that startled her. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie