She wanted to ask him why they were all strangers who shared the same last name.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieOur society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThen she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieYou can't write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
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