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“ 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. ”

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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

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

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

~ Aminatta Forna

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

~ Aminatta Forna