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1. "And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state." ~ Aminatta Forna
2. "A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas." ~ Aminatta Forna
3. "I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it." ~ Aminatta Forna
4. "I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths." ~ Aminatta Forna
5. "A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission." ~ Aminatta Forna
6. "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." ~ Aminatta Forna
7. "Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), 'Lack of breath'." ~ Aminatta Forna
8. "I'm a doctor's daughter. I'm not squeamish at all." ~ Aminatta Forna
9. "Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative." ~ Aminatta Forna
10. "Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained." ~ Aminatta Forna
11. "My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody." ~ Aminatta Forna
12. "My family's a ruling family." ~ Aminatta Forna
13. "What ultimately happened is that my country had a war. I think it would be extraordinary, as a writer, not to want to write about that." ~ Aminatta Forna
14. "I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to drink out of. It's just a small china cup, and I get very upset if my husband moves it." ~ Aminatta Forna
15. "I get a very vague idea and - perhaps because I once was a journalist, or perhaps because that's what made me want to be a journalist - I go off and explore it for a bit, rather than mapping out a plot and then filling in the research." ~ Aminatta Forna
16. "The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, but a memory of love." ~ Aminatta Forna
17. "How easily they spoke of love. And yet, when she'd needed the certainty of his feeling for her, he'd let her slip away, never able to bring himself to tell her about the ways in which he'd been changed. He'd been incapable he'd let Nenebah believe the problem lay with her." ~ Aminatta Forna
18. "Adrian's tone suggested that the desire for something was all it took. They all live with endless possibilities, leave their homes for the sake of something new. But the dream is woven from the fabric of freedom. For desire to exist it requires the element of possibility, and that for Kai has never existed, until now..." ~ Aminatta Forna
19. "All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth." ~ Aminatta Forna
20. "When you do nothing, what do your children inherit? They inherit, nothing." ~ Aminatta Forna
21. "How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do as we please. It doesn't require the breakdown of a social order. It takes a six-hour plane flight." ~ Aminatta Forna
22. "He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a future, somewhere past this point, but he cannot. There is nothing to do but to keep on existing, in this exact time and place. This is what hell must be like. Waiting without knowing. Not hell, but purgatory. Worse than hell." ~ Aminatta Forna

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