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I wonder if I should explain that it’s not that I don’t want to make love, only that after a long day of attending to others I’m craving space.

— Sarah Ladipo Manyika Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun (2016)

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" The future of Nigeria is no longer in it's army as some of us used to think, but in the oil business.

IN DEPENDENCE (2008)

I write for myself and anyone else who enjoys a good story and is eager to read about characters that are still underrepresented in literature.

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A book reads us as much as we read a book.

Is every, every?’ ‘Everything’s fine,’ I say, sensing her struggle with the words.

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The peripatetic nature of my childhood compounded my teenage sense of not quite belonging, nudging me ever closer to books in an on-going search for home.

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595)

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

Sanu Sharma

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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