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1 " The cement screed floor was covered with a weary zebra rug that looked as if it had crawled into the middle of the space and died there. "
― Yewande Omotoso , Bom Boy
2 " Hating, after all, was a drier form of drowning. "
― Yewande Omotoso , The Woman Next Door
3 " The pieces of a life, even when put together, assembled, never amount to the life itself. "
― Yewande Omotoso , An Unusual Grief
4 " She understood what perhaps they are only just learning. That if you attempt to clean the messiness of life you end up scrubbing the life away from living. We can't excise joy from pain. "
5 " Pride is all the flesh you've grown, by necessity, around the bones of your pain. "
6 " I've never understood this fallacy of human nature that just by looking we can know anything at all. "
7 " Night was the real measure of love, Hortensia thought. Anything can sparkle in the daylight. But night – that was when humanity got tested. It was always at night that she saw things between them were decrepit and ugly. "
8 " She’s going to die.’‘We all do eventually, Marion.’‘I’m worried she’ll die and come to haunt me, you know?’‘Ah, I see. Trust you to find a way to be the star of someone else’s death-scene. She’s the one dying, but you’re who we ought to be concerned for. "
