Elisabeth Jessen

“come to a stop in front of the most prominent structure, a clock tower with no clock. There is a painted-on clock face. “It’s odd here,” says Korede. “Every hour someone climbs the belfry and paints the correct time. There is no bell in the belfry, but a rod with a loop of wrought iron marks the spot where one might have hung. There is a strict rota for this, adhered to quite rigidly by the townsfolk.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“She loves that writers make words their servants and bend them to their will.”
― Tade Thompson, The Murders of Molly Southbourne

“What you think of as yourself is actually many things. At the core is your true self, of which you may not even be fully aware. Wrapped around this are several false selves that are used at different times in different situations, social selves that serve the function of translating your true self to the world. We swap between these effortlessly as we grow up, but they are elaborate fictions. Or they are real but alternative selves. It depends on where you stand epistemologically.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater

“I find that the older I get, the less I care what people think about me. I only care what a small number of people think, and that number is dwindling daily.”
― Tade Thompson, Rosewater