" Do you want to go to Nsukka?’ I asked when we got to the landing.
‘Yes,’ he said, and his eyes said that he knew I did, too. And I could not find the words in our eye language to tell him how my throat tightened at the thought of five days without Papa’s voice, without his footsteps on the stairs. "

― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie , Purple Hibiscus