Black Sunday Quotes

“Just give me five years, I'll ruin his entire life.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“We did not yet have the kind of familiarity with misfortune that cultivated a sense of foreboding.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“It's a laugh I know, one most women I know have. Mother has it, too. Laughter you use when nothing is funny, but you are lighthearted and resilient and eager to show it.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“I watch a young woman haggle with almost every seller. Finally, she buys smoked fish, okra, tomatoes, habaneros, and red bell peppers. She will go home to her tiny, sufficient apartment with one soot-stained kerosene stove in a corner and make food just enough for herself and eat less than half of it and fall asleep on her bed and be glad to be alone and unbothered.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“Children can have stubborn pain too.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“Gone but not Forgotten.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“Lagos is filled with broke men with big dreams.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“I was sick with longing. I was sick with the curse of sensation, with all the world's sadness seeking and finding a resting place in my bones and in my marrow.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“All women are owned by someone, some are owned by many; a beautiful girl's only advantage is that she may get to choose her owner.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday

“I think families who spend a lot of time arguing about the small stuff do it because they do not have the courage to talk about the big things.”
― Tola Rotimi Abraham, Black Sunday