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“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
― Of Love and Other Demons
“In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
“...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.”
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
― The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.”
― The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
― The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
“In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.”
― Lima Nights
― Lima Nights
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