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“I meant to say I am sorry Papa broke your figurines, but the words that came out were, ‘I’m sorry your figurines broke, Mama.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“What, you egg? [stabs him]”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“Maybe Mama had realized that she would not need the figurines anymore; that when Papa threw the missal at Jaja, it was not just the figurines that came tumbling down, it was everything.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Jaja’s defiance seemed to me now like Aunty Ifeoma’s experimental purple hibiscus: rare, fragrant with the undertones of freedom, a different kind of freedom from the one the crowds waving green leaves chanted at Government Square after the coup. A freedom to be, to do.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Silence hangs over us, but it is a different kind of silence, one that lets me breathe. I have nightmares about the other kind, the silence of when Papa was alive.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
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