“Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyones bones.”

“Poverty scrapes these homes down until they all look the same, and they all have in common the absence of things that ought to be there. I might as well have been at one place all my life.”

“I prefer a story to a prayer.”

“Agnes: "I have a question for you, speaking of truth. You say God speaks the truth." Tti: "Yes." Agnes: "And God said: 'Thou shalt not kill.'Tti: "Yes. Tti said carefully." Agnes: "Then Blondal and...”

“Together they listed the people they had known who had died on the mountains. A bleak conversation to have, thought Margrt, but there was some comfort in talking about death aloud, as though in nam...”

“If I didn't know you I would say I don't know you.”

“Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soaked, drenched in love - only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as we...”

“You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.”

“I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.”

“You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they dont prevent you from making the right decisions later on. Its harder, but its not impossible.”

“Nigeria has divided itself into PDP and APC.The PDP is to go on making mistakes while APC is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.”