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Oyinkan Braithwaite Quotes

born 1988 Nigeria

Oyinkan Braithwaite (born 1988) is a Nigerian-UK novelist and writer. Braithwaite was born in Lagos in 1988.

Nigeria
Novelists

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I know better than to take life directions from someone without a moral compass.

Is there anything more beautiful than a man with a voice like an ocean?

As an individual I’m attracted to strong female characters – my characters have always been people who own themselves. Even if they’re strongly doing something wrong, they’ve always been powerful people.

We are nothing if not thorough in our deception of others.

Love is not a weed, It cannot grow where it please…

It takes a whole lot longer to dispose of a body than to dispose of a soul, especially if you don’t want to leave any evidence of foul play.

Writing for me is an act of discovery, I am learning about the characters even as I am writing them. In reality, we rarely know why people do the things they do. I think it is enough, sometimes, to simply point to something and allow the readers to reach their own conclusions.

It’s because she is beautiful, you know. That’s all it is. They don’t really care about the rest of it. She gets a pass at life.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oyinkan Braithwaite (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.