He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.

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How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

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To have money, it seemed, was to be consumed by money.

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...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.

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Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had ever been, yet she knew that Ranyinudo meant well, and had said what many other Nigerians would say, which was why she had not told anyone else about Dike's suicide attempt since she came back.

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Mots clés perception home immigration culture achebe



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If I had not grown up in Nigeria- and if all I knew of Africa were of popular images- I too would think that africa was a place of beautiful landscapes, beautiful animals and incomprehensible people fighting sensless wars, dying of poverty and aids- unable to speak for themselves and waiting to be saved by a kind white foreigner.

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Mots clés africa charity ted



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I often wondered why Sister Veronica needed to understand it, when it was simply the way things were done.

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Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.

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Mots clés books-reading-novels



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I'm chasing you. I'm going to chase you until you give this a chance.

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Mots clés love



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Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

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