Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

Over the years, she'd learned not to question him to closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.

I do not want to answer provocative question.

If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.

If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to go.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me.

I'll pretend that I want you for what is on the inside.

She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is.

Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up. No good answer!