The List Quotes

“Would you be okay with other crimes being handled via the court of Twitter?”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“She'd see a rumor ruin a life before the facts had been ascertained”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“was”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“They weren’t bad boys, his boys. But wasn’t that the issue? Why was ‘not bad’ so often good enough?”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“It was funny, Ola thought briefly, how feminism had swung to now meet patriarchy in the middle, seemingly agreeing that what women wanted was everything to be pink and focused on making them look good.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“that men only have issues with abusive men outside of their immediate circle. The closer to home, the blinder their eye becomes. She was probably right.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“But love alone simply wasn’t enough; certainly not a love that made her question how much she loved herself.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“This was what she had always known being with a man to be. Suffering, offset by the pride of having one.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“They weren’t bad boys, his boys. But wasn’t that the issue? Why was “not bad” so often good enough?”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“It’s just interesting that you’ve been more than happy to talk about the importance of ‘believing women’ until the one time it actually requires personal sacrifice. And by ‘interesting’ I mean ‘total hypocritical fuckery.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“Exhale chaos; inhale peace.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“She felt safer when the storm finally arrived than in the calm before it.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“The closer to home, the blinder their eye becomes.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“For weeks, she had stood by him - in front of him rather, shielding him from bullets that he had assured her were misdirected, only for him to confess he deserved them.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“But wasn't that the issue? Why was "not bad" so often good enough?”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“He loved her in a way that was no use to her, in a way she was better off without.”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“That was the irony; men feared false accusations, but survivors were the ones being wrongly smeared. No matter how much evidence there was to support an allegation, for months afterwards accusers were demanded to #ThinkFirst”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List

“Did you even get married if you didn't have the viral post to show for it? After everything social media had put them through, how it revealed the swiftness with which admirers can become enemies, where did he stand on it now?”
― Yomi Adegoke, The List