“The glory of suffering might be humankind’s biggest, ever-recyclable con trick.”
—melanie reid, The World I Fell Out Of
“Clearly his personal god or chi was not made for great things. A man could not rise beyond the destiny of his chi. The saying of the elders was not true—that if a man said yea his chi also affirmed. Here was a man whose chi said nay despite his own affirmation.”
—chinua achebe, Things Fall Apart