“He’s a gesturer, Jide, not a finisher; he starts things or makes to start things and then he stops. It frustrates me that nothing is too intolerable for him to bear, and that he bears it all, so plaintive and passive. You don’t stop at longing; you use the force of your longing to bring into being the life that you want, or you try”
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,
Dream Count
