Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad Quotes

“Lukumon, please tell your family why you made me sleep with another man for money, but treated me like a leper when I returned. Explain why you refused to take the job the man offered you, but you insisted that I took the money, rent this house, and buy you that stupid watch. Tell them why you have refused to touch me but you’re sleeping with every girl in the neighbourhood. Why did you say yesterday that you don’t think Kitan is your child?”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“But I should have known that any man who could keep a clean white shirt at the end of a Lagos work day would be dangerous.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly all the Men in Lagos are Mad

“It is time my dear, let us go and celebrate the Lord in bed, he would often say before sex.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly all the Men in Lagos are Mad

“He was amazingly different from Lukumon—savvier, kinkier, unselfish.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“You liked me so much I had no choice but to start liking myself, to start acting respectable, like someone who had something special waiting for them back home.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“When the ATM brings out naira notes, they look the same no matter how you have earned it.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly all the Men in Lagos are Mad

“How much do you have to know about someone to fall in love with them?”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“To tell you the truth, the only thing I knew about love before you was that it ends. That’s it.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“Misery loves company, dear.” She was also fond of asking rhetorically, “Why spend your money when you can spend his?”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“thirty-three when you had your first orgasm. It wasn’t from Idris. But, call it serendipity, it was Idris who introduced you to him. He was a beautiful man. Dimpled”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“But you didn’t say you cried mostly because, after considering the darkness of your Allen Avenue days and the deep dissatisfaction of your marriage, sometimes you were overwhelmed with gratitude that you were the lucky mother to two beautifully perfect boys. They were the best and purest things in your life, a nod to God and his mysterious ways.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“Maybe it’s fast because I have been waiting so long for something good to happen to me.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

“No man had ever shown my pussy the kind of love you showed it. The way your tongue swept over my clit, the way you sucked my juices dry and then made me wet again by sucking on my nipples while you teased me with your fingers. The way you kept inserting your tongue in and out of my pussy, swallowing my orgasm over and over again. Dele, your tongue has more uses than your dick. You should cut that useless piece of shit between your legs off. Your tongue is enough.”
― Damilare Kuku, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad