Sweet Heat Quotes

“Sometimes insecurities dictate our feelings – we project thoughts onto other people and let them trap us – but a good song stirs emotion with knowledge.”
― Bolu Babalola, Sweet Heat

“And what's the value of 'safer' anyway, if nothing precious is at stake?”
― Bolu Babalola, Sweet Heat

“…I don't think love is "whatever". I think it's a definitive, persistent thing, that you can feel and touch and bite into, and it colours everything. Everything. You can't fold it away in a convenient place. You can't work around it. You choose it, and you keep choosing it and it becomes part of who you are and that's a good thing because, if it's right, it's built from who you are anyway - parts of your spirit and parts of the other person's spirit coming together to make this little world for you both. It helps to power you, navigating the world around you.”
― Bolu Babalola, Sweet Heat

“You both are funny. Just walking around with that sweet heat. You know when something is peppery and hot and makes you sweat, but it's also delicious? Addictive? And then the fire cools down, down, and it somehow tastes even better in your mouth? Still hot, but less hectic. The flavour deeper. Something that lasts. Has different lives.”
― Bolu Babalola, Sweet Heat

“And I wanted him to press into me harder, like maybe if he did he would leave me indents of his body, of his love, that I could trace when I missed him, which would be always.”
― Bolu Babalola, Sweet Heat