Quotes from book of the week
Book: Little rot
Rating: 9/10
These quotes had me looking at my imaginary audience like “did you see that?? 🫡🫡” or Screaming “Linesssssssss”
• "But that's the problem with pressing yourself down too much, folding and folding when you're not really made of a material that's suitable for those kinds of creases."
• "It was child's play to break weak men, small boys like these who didn't know what actual power was, who tried projections of it on for size but it never fit, as if they were drowning in their fathers' clothes."
• "Chicken wey run from Borno go Ibadan go still enter inside pot of soup."
• "Suffering, Ola had learned, was quite often better than death. It left you space for a life afterward, a life you could bend into whatever you wanted. It left you a chance."
• "These wives just don't know what to do when they find out their husbands are fucking a trans woman, you know?"
• "This city. You think you'll never be a part of things you hate; you think you're protected somehow, like the rot won't ever get to you.
• ”Then you wake up one day and you're chest deep in it, watching some perverted gays at a random party in the highland."
• "They come here and the rot grows like a weed inside them.
Then it's a year later and they're surprised by what they've sunk to. Me, I started from the gutter, so I was prepared.
There was nowhere left for me to sink to."
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