Yellow Sun Quotations

Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.