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Nina is a female journalist whom Tunde dates briefly. He shies away from her in bed when she tries to use her power on him because of the trauma he endured in Delhi. Over the course of the book, Tunde sends Nina some of his materials and photographs. After Tunde is reported dead (even though in reality he is still alive), Nina publishes all of his material under her own name, demonstrating a reversal of men historically stealing work from women or not crediting their contributions.
Nina Quotes in The Power
The The Power quotes below are all either spoken by Nina or refer to Nina. 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 21: Tunde Quotes
The white woman—her name was Nina—had said, “Do you think you have PTSD?”
It was because she’d used her thing in bed and he’d shied away from it. Told her to stop. Started crying.
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Chapter 34: Roxy Quotes
In the dark of the night he tells her about Nina and how she published his words and his photographs under her name. And how he knows by that that she was always waiting to take from him everything he had. And she tells him about Darrell and what was taken from her, and in that telling he knows everything; why she carries herself like this and why she's been hiding all these long weeks and why she thinks she can’t go home and why she hasn’t struck against Darrell at once and with great fury, as a Monke would do. She had half forgotten her own name until he reminded her of it.
One of them says, "Why did they do it, Nina and Darrell?”
And the other answers, “Because they could.”
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Chapter 50 Quotes
I don’t think it’s at all a stretch to suggest that they picked works to copy that supported their viewpoint and just let the rest molder into flakes of parchment. I mean, why would they re-copy works that said that men used to be stronger and women weaker? That would be heresy, and they’d be damned for it.
This is the trouble with history. You can’t see what’s not there.
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Nina Character Timeline in The Power
The timeline below shows where the character Nina appears in The Power. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 21: Tunde
...responds that there’s not much time for that. He had briefly dated another journalist named Nina for a while. She had used the power in bed, but he’d shied away from...
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Chapter 29: Tunde
...young man’s warning, and burns a DVD. He puts it in an envelope addressed to Nina; he’s left materials with her before for safekeeping.
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Chapter 33: Tunde
...the book that is waiting for him on USB sticks and notebooks he has in Nina’s apartment.
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...time to leave Bessapara. He plugs his phone into an outlet and sends emails to Nina, Temi, and three editors he’d worked for. While he waits for a reply, he looks...
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Tunde flips back to Nina’s story, reading that it is an extract from a longer book she’ll be publishing later...
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Chapter 34: Roxy
...to share. They thank each other for saving each other’s lives. Tunde tells Roxy about Nina; Roxy tells Tunde about Darrell. Eventually, one of them asks: “Why did they do it,...
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