Aminatta Forna

Quotes

• “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.”
• “I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.”
• “A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission.”