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"There is so much that is still silent between Jaja and me. Perhaps we will talk more with time, or perhaps we never will be able to say it all, to clothe things in words, things that have long been naked."
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"Marriage is a sacred-commitment."
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"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
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"We are all connected in spirit, in love and in faith."
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"Parent greatest gift to their children is their bond of love."
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"It was too perfect to last,' so I am tempted to say of our marriage. But it can be meant in two ways. It may be grimly pessimistic - as if God no sooner saw two of His creatures happy than He stopped it ('None of that here!'). As if He were like the Hostess at the sherry-party who separates two guests the moment they show signs of having got into a real conversation. But it could also mean 'This had reached its proper perfection. This had become what it had in it to be. Therefore of course it would not be prolonged.' As if God said, 'Good; you have mastered that exercise. I am very pleased with it. And now you are ready to go on to the next."
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"Those who don't care about the positive side of you, are too dangerous to have on your side."
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"They said, "You'll never find someone like me again!" I thanked them for wishing me well."
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"In some cases, it is the woman's stomach-not her heart-that has left her man for another."
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"Try not to be the kind of friend who only makes friends when in desperate need of financial help."
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"The key to every human heart is love."
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"There was something brittle about her, and he feared she would snap apart at the slightest touch; she had thrown herself so fiercely into this, the erasing of memory, that it would destroy her."
Emotion
"Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person."
Relationship
"Papa said that the parish priest in Abba was not spiritual enough. That was the problem with our people, Papa told us, our priorities were wrong; we cared too much about huge church buildings and mighty statues. You would never see white people doing that."
Religion
"Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is."
Literature
"Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever."
Equality
"Femelu could not understand this, her mother's ability to tell herself stories about her reality that did not even resemble her reality."
Reflection
"If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices."
Society
"He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over."
Relationship
"He missed her, a longing that tore deep into him. He resented her He wondered endlessly what might have happened. He changed, curled more inwardly into himself. He was, by turns, inflamed by anger, twisted by confusion, withered by sadness."
Psychology
"Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality."
Lifestyle
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