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‘Want,’ she told her, in a measured tone, ‘is an interesting word. It means lack. Sometimes if we fill that lack with something else the original want disappears entirely.
“Youth is an irreplaceable treasure, and the only respectable thing to do with irreplaceable treasure is to waste it.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. —COLETTE”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“How long have you worked for my aunt?” I asked her. “Since Moses was in nappies.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“Except theirs was the sort of love that best thrives when a husband and wife are separated by the distance of an entire continent. (“Don’t laugh,” my grandmother said. “A lot of marriages would work better that way.”)”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“because he wished Okwudiba would see that to call him humble was to make rudeness normal.”
― Americanah
― Americanah
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