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Lawrence Osborn
Nkiruka is Little Bee’s older sister, who cares for her like a parent as well as a sister. After Nkiruka and Little Bee see the oil companies’ mercenaries destroy their village, they flee together until mercenaries chase them down. When Andrew cannot bring himself to cut off his finger, the hunters take Nkiruka away, then rape, torture, and murder her while Little Bee, hiding nearby, is forced to listen.
Nkiruka / Kindness Quotes in Little Bee
The Little Bee quotes below are all either spoken by Nkiruka / Kindness or refer to Nkiruka / Kindness. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Three
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They told us we must be disciplined to overcome our fears. This is the discipline I learned: whenever I go into a new place, I work out how I would kill myself there. In case the men come suddenly, I make sure I am ready.
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Chapter Four
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“I just think this is not our affair and so…”
“Ah,” the killer said. “Not your affair.”
He turned to the other hunters and spread his arms.
“Not his affair, him say. Him say, this is black-man business. Ha ha ha ha! […] First time I hear white man say my business not his business. You got our gold. You got our oil. What is wrong with our girls?”
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Chapter Five
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Then I listened to my sister’s bones being broken one by one. That is how my sister died. […] When the men and the dogs were finished with my sister, the only parts of her that they threw into the sea were the parts that could not be eaten.
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Nkiruka / Kindness Quotes in Little Bee
The Little Bee quotes below are all either spoken by Nkiruka / Kindness or refer to Nkiruka / Kindness. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter Three
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They told us we must be disciplined to overcome our fears. This is the discipline I learned: whenever I go into a new place, I work out how I would kill myself there. In case the men come suddenly, I make sure I am ready.
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Chapter Four
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“I just think this is not our affair and so…”
“Ah,” the killer said. “Not your affair.”
He turned to the other hunters and spread his arms.
“Not his affair, him say. Him say, this is black-man business. Ha ha ha ha! […] First time I hear white man say my business not his business. You got our gold. You got our oil. What is wrong with our girls?”
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Chapter Five
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Then I listened to my sister’s bones being broken one by one. That is how my sister died. […] When the men and the dogs were finished with my sister, the only parts of her that they threw into the sea were the parts that could not be eaten.
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