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21 " Anthony was calm as an underground river. Father Oke was a volcano ready to erupt. "
― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon
22 " These roads are full of ghosts. "
23 " would you have felt? "
24 " Lagos–Benin Expressway. "
25 " You three were chosen," Ayodele said. "You made sense. I know we've made the right choice. "
26 " ...she had returned to the beach out of habit. Since dropping out of university, this stretch of sand was where her future resided. She would walk it until the day some man wanted more than just to have sex with her. Since she'd put aside her dream of being a nurse, she'd embrace the idea of being a wife, like her mother. A woman who minded the home, the children and lay on her back for only one man. The prostitution was just to make ends meet until that time came. "
27 " Bar beach was where she knew her destiny waited for her. "
28 " It was still clear and wet. She touched the water that lapped at her shoes and brought it to her lips. Still salty. A low wind blew gentle waves on the water and the sun was setting. "Take me!" she shouted at the ocean. The air smelled cloyingly fishy, yet the more she inhaled, the clearer her mind felt. Clean, clean air. "Take me!" She threw off her gym shoes and socks and moved into the water. "
29 " The mute boy never knew his father or mother. He was found in a Dumpster and then placed in an orphanage. No one ever bothered to name him, and he never knew how to name himself. He was only eight years old. "
30 " What did you do to that crazy woman?" she asked Ayodele, who sat beside her in the car now holding her hand. "I took her to the water," Ayodele said. "That's all she wanted. "
31 " THE BOY AND THE LADY "
32 " He’d learned the hard way that he could never trust people during such times. Anyone could get swept in to the mob’s violent mentality at any moment. "
33 " After it finished, none of them said a word, yet in their minds, they saw plenty. Jacobs saw an end to living with parents who refused to accept him. His sister Fisayo saw all of Lagos in flames. Seven saw infinite possibilities and a people from outer space that could make the world embrace and "
34 " My plan was genius. Seriously, the woman was an idiot. She really believed her Caucasian blood and money made her irresistible to one of Nollywood’s top film directors. She’d even told me these things in those exact words. She had no clue that she sounded like a racist condescending asshole. There was a very pure strain of White Privilege running through her. So why not capitalize on her idiocy? "
35 " In many ways, Bar Beach was a perfect sample of Nigerian society. It was a place of mixing. The ocean mixed with the land, and the wealthy mixed with the poor. "
36 " I am the spider. I see sound. I feel taste. I hear touch. I spin the story. This is the story I’ve spun. I am Udide Okwanka. "