Allow Me to Introduce Myself Quotes

“But Ophelia’s attractiveness was inoffensive, not least because it was accompanied by a personality caged and subdued by a sibling’s death and the resulting dejection of her parents.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“There was not a soul to whom she could pour out her fear. There were the school mums. There were the PRs at various brands with whom she was on a first-name basis. There were dozens of people she knew but amongst them, not a single friend to sit with her in her misery without then going on to sell a story to the tabloids.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“I work with influencers. I’ve seen what can happen when they’re backed into a corner.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“Social media had its own currency. Validation and praise could be dangerous and addictive, and as it had with Ophelia, when popularity translates into financial returns, the drug becomes more potent.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“To say he had not tried would be a gross misrepresentation of the extent Nkem had not tried. His abdication of responsibility should be studied in classrooms around the globe and titled Nkem-ism. That a father could be so present and at the same time so utterly absent in important matters would be awe-inspiring were it not so tragic.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“To sacrifice a child on the faux altar of progressiveness was still a sacrifice. Safeguarding could not just be set aside in favor of the intoxicant that was attention.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“She wiped her face and stood up. “The difference, Dad, is that her success is at my expense.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“Praying for Ophelia’s downfall was no longer enough; Aṅụrị needed to participate in it. Month one: Aṅụrị, on a visit”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“She had still not recognized, even at twenty-five, that she could be loved without having toiled for it; that acceptance was not solely a reward for good behavior.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“To liken the relationship between stepmother and child to that of a corporation and actor is the epitome of a false equivalence. My client is not a willful employee of Mrs. Chinasa. She did not enter into a voluntary agreement. There was no contract. What infant can reasonably consent to their image being used in varied commercial capacity for what amounts to the financial and social elevation of the guardian in perpetuity?”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“The unique thirst for alcohol lived like an unruly tenant in her mind, refusing to be evicted.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“If he had a backbone, all of us would be headache-free.” Nneoma could do nothing but incline her head in agreement.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“Someone too weak to resist the lure of alcohol-induced oblivion was perhaps not the same someone who ought to become guardian to an already delicate human.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“If there is one thing white people hate more than anything in this world, it is the implication that their racism makes them”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“hair. As if it was a worthless pursuit. As if bringing smiles to the faces of people who entrusted their crowns to her fingertips meant nothing. Peddling candles. Like scent could not remove you from where you stood and send you to a field, a forest, your grandmother’s kitchen; as if olfaction was not a gift.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself

“You don’t think it’s weird that guys get off on me calling them worthless pieces of shit? Maybe I should break my own rule and meet one so I can bring him along and get your insight.” “Would you like to use your session to delve into the complexities of psychodynamic behavior? Or do you think we could redirect? You mentioned your father.”
― Onyi Nwabineli, Allow Me to Introduce Myself