I wonder if I should explain that it’s not that I don’t want to make love, only that after a long day of attending to others I’m craving space.
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“You liked me so much I had no choice but to start liking myself, to start acting respectable, like someone who had something special waiting for them back home.”
― Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
― Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
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“The trauma she had endured often manifested itself as quiet tears once she was locked in her room, staring at her graveyard of photos.”
― In Every Mirror She's Black
― In Every Mirror She's Black
“He was amazingly different from Lukumon—savvier, kinkier, unselfish.”
― Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
― Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
“Lukumon, please tell your family why you made me sleep with another man for money, but treated me like a leper when I returned. Explain why you refused to take the job the man offered you, but you insisted that I took the money, rent this house, and buy you that stupid watch. Tell them why you have refused to touch me but you’re sleeping with every girl in the neighbourhood. Why did you say yesterday that you don’t think Kitan is your child?”
― Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
― Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
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“In less than a year, he’d developed this carriage. She wasn’t sure if he’d been building his armor of activism the day his mom left him at ten years old or if he had to expedite its construction because Sweden hated sharp edges that stuck out.”
― In Every Mirror She's Black
― In Every Mirror She's Black
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