Ghostroots Quotes

“And others say, “Night market? God forbid! I hear it’s spirits that buy from night market. Abi, are you a spirit?” Salewa looks down at her calloused hands, her ashy skin, her clothes heavy with dried sweat. No, she doesn’t think she is a spirit. But how is a spirit different from an unrecognized body, a body with no connections, nothing tethering it?”
― Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots: Stories

“She thought it was a little sad, a little naïve, how he wore his excitement on his face, in front of teenagers who saw any kind of earnestness as weakness.”
― 'Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots: Stories

“But maybe when the time comes, I will think that I am tired of being anybody’s girlie, and I will go somewhere nobody knows to call me “girlie,” or to ask me where my mummy is, or whether I even have a mummy, and they will instead ask me what my name is, and I will be able to choose a name and my own story, a story that I am making up by myself.”
― 'Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots: Stories

“If I die, or if I go away. What’s the difference?” She pushed until I made space for her to lie beside me. “You’ll be alive,” she said. “It’ll be different for you.” I remained quiet. I couldn’t hope, but I could let her.”
― 'Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots: Stories

“A professor once said that a successful renovation must allow the legacy of the original to shimmer through, to carry forward; and Arit is wary of the hardness of the word fix, the incisions of the”
― 'Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots: Stories

“Arit faces the house, and the house faces her.”
― 'Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots: Stories