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So this man, a widow just offers her a job in his home after one encounter with her, and absolutely nothing will happen between them.

Am I reading a wattpad book or —

“half of a yellow sun gleaming on their sleeves.”

“You insult me, Odenigbo.”
“The truth has become an insult.”

“At Independence in 1960, Nigeria was a collection of fragments held in a fragile clasp.”

“The South, too eager for independence, accepted this constitution. With the British gone, there would be good things for everyone: “white” salaries long denied Nigerians, promotions, top jobs. Nothing was done about the clamor of the minority groups, and the regions were already competing so fiercely that some wanted separate foreign embassies.”

“He felt a flush of achievement, at how easily fiancée had slipped out of him, a sign of future uxorious bliss. He smiled, then realized that his smile threatened to grow into a giggle and that he might be slightly delirious.”

If he doesn’t feel this way about me I don’t want him

So I stopped reading Jamaica inn because it takes place in November and I thought reading it would help me get through it because I was already struggling, but now that I’ve returned to it I’m back at square one.

Mary should just say f u to everyone and leave because I cannot handle another moment of her enduring all of this just for her aunt’s sanity which I’m questioning if it’s even there !!

“Avoiding his father’s watchful gaze, the son began to enter his sister’s room on his own.
This time, it wasn’t to drink his sister’s blood.”

*sigh*

THIS MAN IS SO OBNOXIOUS AND EGOTISTICAL AKENWNWNWNWJWKE

“Why did I believe Connelly when he told me I was special, but not my father?”

🕳️🚶‍♀️

Daddy issues to the extreme

“Hey…if we keep doing this, just saying nothing, no matter what they do, think maybe we’ll become things too.”

This reminds me of that video where the person is addicted to pretending to be furniture.

“ Edie was pretty in the near death way that just starting to gain traction in magazines and rock bands: large eyes, small face, equal parts fragile and bold.

“He’s one of these village houseboys,” one of the men said dismissively, and Ugwu looked at the man’s face and murmured a curse about acute diarrhea following him and all of his offspring for life.”

😭😭

My grandfathers, whom I never knew,
Nwoye David Adichie and Aro-Nweke Felix Odigwe,
did not survive the war.

My grandmothers, Nwabuodu Regina Odigwe and
Nwamgbafor Agnes Adichie, remarkable women
both, did.

This book is dedicated to their memories:
ka fa nodu na ndokwa.

How am I already crying at the acknowledgements

This book is not it omg.

The way this book’s potential instantly dropped in the middle is astounding

Wait slay the covers of all the books I’m reading rn match

If by the end of the book (52 chapters), the main female and male lead don’t end up together, I will truly scream

AHHHHHHHHHH——

“Daphne smiled. It was either that or cry.” So real.

Wdym u love him he just rejected you

Anthony is the biggest cock block

“Margaret you mustn’t be hurt, but he was much prettier than you were”

I’m sorry, what now~

The tension between these two 😏😏

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“I think I was well when mother died.”

Without any context this is crazy 🫨🫨

I’m using that emoji because this is the first time I saw it

“People wondered how such handsome parents could have a daughter not so beautiful.”

I’m sorry WHAT-