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born 1988 Nigeria
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (born January 29, 1988) is a Nigerian writer.Her 2017 debut novel, Stay With Me, won the 9mobile Prize for Literature and the Prix Les Afriques. She was awarded The Future Awards Africa Prize for Arts and Culture in 2017.
Also known as: A spell of good things, Ayobami Adebayo, Stay with Me
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“Already, I was coming undone, like a hastily tied scarf coming loose, on the ground before the owner is aware of it.”
“Di we ever really know what we will do in any situation until the situation presents itself?”
Stay with Me (2017)
“The road stretches before us, shrouded in a darkness transitioning into dawn as it leads me back to you.”
Stay with Me (2017)
Maybe she was one of those people for whom satisfaction lay only in the future, forever slightly out of reach.
A Spell of Good Things (2023)
Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered.
A Spell of Good Things (2023)
“Now hear me well—what is not yours is not yours o, even if you marry the person that has that thing. If it is not yours, it is not yours o.”
A Spell of Good Things (2023)
“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break”
“There is nothing stopping a beautiful girl from facing her books”
“But even then, I could trap those thoughts and keep them caged in a corner of my mind, in a place where they could not spread their wings and take over my life.”
“Before you call the snail a weakling, tie your house to your back and carry it around for a week”
“Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone.”
“Even the tongue and the teeth cannot cohabit without fighting”
“The reasons why we do the things we do will not always be the ones that others will remember. Sometimes”
I am interested in the idea that people should be able to define their own happiness. It’s not just about fertility; we are often told that we need this or that to be happy. We need to be thin, rich or whatever. But maybe we should decide for ourselves what happiness looks like.
“So love is like a test, but in what sense? To what end? Who was carrying out the test? But I think I did believe that love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us, refine us and reveal to us the better versions of ourselves.”
“I would learn later that Akin could keep himself neatly folded in while he drew out other people. He was the kind of person that many claimed as a dear friend. Many of those people did not even know him, but they never knew they did not know him.”
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