Love in Colour Quotes

“They enjoyed the glamour but not the gore, not knowing that the gore was what gave the glamour its gleam.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour

“What matters most is that you feel like you are at your fullest.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“It was the kind of lovemaking that has you feeling more beautiful the next day; walking smugly with a sway, hips swishing, with a nimbus of power and joy around you, as if you were a goddess among mortals because, the other night, you inhabited heaven. You were the only thing a person could see, could taste, could hear, could feel.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Thank you for letting me love you. Thank you for loving me back. Thank you for staying, I know it was hard sometimes. I hope you now live free.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Psy was smiling. It was warm and soft, and to Eros it looked like the perfect place to lie in and just be.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Love is the prism through which I view the world. I truly believe it binds and propels us. This isn’t a naive denial of the darkness that we know exists in the world; rather it is a refusal to allow the devastation, the horror, or the heartache to consume us. It is affirming the knowledge that there is light. Love is that light. Romance sweetens the casual bitterness we can encounter; it heightens the mundane and makes the terrestrial supernatural.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Time was constructed with love in mind. / Time and love are intertwined, they are both measures of life, they are the two clocks.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“She is fascinated by how much romantic love can soften a hard life, highlight the best of you, not condemn the worst of you.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Everything", I ran my eyes across him, "on your body that you used to hurt your wife shall be removed. I think that's reasonable.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Time and love are intertwined, they are both measures of life, they are the two clocks. And, for love to operate as it should, it is imperative that the timing should be right.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Pieces of me fell into place. I was growing into what I should be. We were growing. It wasn't as if our love built me, it's that it galvanized me, making me stronger because he saw me fully, the best and worst parts.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Yemoja was the root and Osun was the blossom, forever reaching for the sky. And so, Yemoja pretended to understand her sister, and Osun pretended she was understood.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“I couldn’t believe I was letting my ex-boyfriend risk the security of my bag. Money before honeys. No. Men weren’t honeys. Scratch that. Fees before The D. Contracts before Phone Contacts. Those were all terrible and I cannot believe someone is paying me to write. I opened up Instagram to distract myself.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour

“Ọṣun was used to being looked at, but, from this moment, she would become used to being seen.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“I didn't like doing things I wasn't good at, but it turned out I loved learning how to love with him.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“... their thoughts finding places to be held within each other, their philosophies finding companionship.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“because you're also, clearly, a really funny, smart, interesting and hot terrible person and I would like to get to know you more to truly understand the depth of your meanness.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“they’re impossible to date, and, naturally, they were rife with misogyny and violence and were created within heavily patriarchal contexts. With this book I was able to re-imagine these stories in a manner that meant that the women were centred; it was less about being chosen and more about their agency in allowing themselves to love and be loved.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour

“Time was constructed with love in mind. It is why the moments before a desired kiss stretch, why when your lips are fully introduced with another pair, it feels as if they have wanted to meet for sometime, and why a day with your loved one can feel like an eternity on turbo-speed. Achingly, deliciously slow, but too fast, intertwined, they are both measures of life, they are two clocks. And, for love to operate as it should, it is imperative that the timing should be right.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Sometimes when you are hungry enough, you can will the ghost-taste of sweet bread in your mouth”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Time was constructed with love in mind.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Zhinu bit back her smile. “Um, I really should get back to . . .” What? The bed she shared with her mother? “I would love a drink. Thank you.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Yaa could ignore Kofi’s mother telling her that there were creams she could use to ‘heighten’ her skin, as she would supposedly be even more beautiful with ‘some of the sun lifted out’, because of the objective fact that Yaa had always gotten all the top prizes in school over Kofi. At political events, she was the one whose brain wanted to be picked, who engaged in debates that disturbed men enough for them to be both fearful and”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour

“Ọṣun’s smile outshone it. Ọṣun was used to being looked at, but, from this moment, she would become used to being seen.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Sometimes, when you are hungry enough, you can will the ghost-taste of sweet-bread in your mouth. It will make you hungrier, though, and emptier. And sometimes you won’t know how truly bereft of food you are until it’s too late.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Romance sweetens the casual bitterness we can encounter; it heightens the mundane and makes the terrestrial supernatural.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Did you know that thunderstorms don’t always produce rain? It’s a shame, because the rivers hear the thunder and see the lightning and expect to be filled up, only to end up disappointed. Dry thunderstorms are just show-offs. Scaring birds and burning trees while the river pants. Forgetting that the river helps feed the clouds that thunder are created from.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“I felt like there was an infinity within our affinity, that our connection was so deep and fathomless that there was no way we could be bound by something as mundane as dawn. We were our own suns”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“She didn't force the tear back with the self-admonition that it was a weakness she had not time for. Siya found that she did not actually feel weak. Maadi saw all that she was, both a heartbroken daughter and a fearless fighter, and, in his eyes, she saw a space for her strength and softness to meld into each other, her strength buttressing her softness, her softness giving wisdom and direction to her strength. With the two parts of herself not warring each other, she felt some stability. She felt safe to grieve as well as fight.”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

“Ọṣun tried to swallow her curiosity (she wasn’t used to the taste, as she rarely found what men said to be interesting),”
― Bolu Babalola, Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold