Status Updates From Purple Hibiscus

what a sadness one must have to go a day without laughing

I love aunty ifeoma

"I often wondered why Sister Veronica needed to understand it, when it was simply the way things were done."

"He was gracious, in the eager-to-please way he always assumed with the religious, especially with the white religious"

point me to studies on daughters' unconditional love for their abusive fathers bc I know a part of it is internalized sexism

Kambili. Let me live.

every sentence is highlight-worthy

"We had to sound civilized in public, he told us; we had to Speak English. Papa's sister, Aunty Ifeoma, said once that Papa was too much of a colonial product. She had said this about Papa in a mild, forgiving way, as if it were not Papa's fault..."