Yellow Sun Quotes:

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

- Douglas Adams

topic: Distance, Lying, Science, Galaxy, Uncharted

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.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

source: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2008). “Half of a Yellow Sun”, p.283, Anchor

topic: Men, Said, Behave, Feeling Stuck, Yellow Sun

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

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

source: Jude Deveraux (2008). “Secrets: A Novel”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

topic: Unforgivable, Yellow Sun

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a brief irrational moment, she wished she could walk away from him. 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.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Trying, Needs, Moments, Yellow Sun

You can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Inspiring, Writing, Mind, Yellow Sun

The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Real, People, Tragedy, Yellow Sun

Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and, finally, the half of a yellow sun stood for the glorious future.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

topic: Sibling, Blood, Yellow, Yellow Sun

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.

- Allen Ginsberg

topic: Flower, Snakes, Yellow, Shiva, Wordsworth

Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.

- Vachel Lindsay

topic: Hands, Yellow, Kansas, Binders, Yellow Sun

The digital sunset always looks better than the real thing, always. Because a sunset generated by the basic package of yellow sun and blue sky is unreliable. Today it may be stunning, hypnotic. Tomorrow it may be lifeless and dull, a white sky scorched with yellow. Tomorrow the sky will be velvet.

- Will Christopher Baer

topic: Real, Sunset, Blue, Stunning, Packages

Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty preening of redbirds and bluebirds, the blackbird with the red-tipped wings like startling epaulets.

- Terry Kay

topic: Grieving, Wings, Yellow, Bluebird, Blackbirds

One knew, of course, that it was not the red cape any more than it was the boots, the tights, the trunks, or the trademark "S" that gave Superman the ability to fly. That ability derived from the effects of the rays of our yellow sun on Superman's alien anatomy, which had evolved under the red sun of Krypton. And yet you had only to tie a towel around your shoulders to feel the strange vibratory pulse of flight stirring in the red sun of your heart.

- Michael Chabon

topic: Heart, Krypton, Yellow, Trademarks, Yellow Sun