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“You know it was love at first sight for both of us," he said.
"For both of us? Is it by force? Why are you speaking for me?"
"I'm just stating a fact. Stop struggling."
...
"Yes, it's a fact," she said.
"What?"
"I love you.”
― Americanah
"For both of us? Is it by force? Why are you speaking for me?"
"I'm just stating a fact. Stop struggling."
...
"Yes, it's a fact," she said.
"What?"
"I love you.”
― Americanah
“He reminded her of Obinze’s expression for people he liked. Obi ocha. A clean heart.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted?”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“It’s strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
“Each memory stunned her with its blinding luminosity. Each brought with it a sense of unassailable loss, a great burden hurtling towards her, and she wished she could duck, lower herself so that it would bypass her, so that she would save herself. Love was a kind of grief. This was what the novelists meant by suffering. She had often thought it a little silly, the idea of suffering for love, but now she understood.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
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