Happiness, Like Water Quotes

“...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.”
― Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water: Award-Winning Nigerian Literary Fiction about Mothers, Daughters, Love, and Identity

“Happiness is like water,’ she says. ‘We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers.”
― Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water: Award-Winning Nigerian Literary Fiction about Mothers, Daughters, Love, and Identity

“Happiness is like water, she says ‘We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers”
― Chinelo Okparanta, Happiness, Like Water: Award-Winning Nigerian Literary Fiction about Mothers, Daughters, Love, and Identity