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She walked as though the earth spun to match her gait.
What would happen if you couldn't forget, if every emotion from every person whose grief you'd eaten came back up? It could happen if something went wrong with the formula millions and millions of permutations down the line. A thousand falling men landing on you.
Nneoma tried to retreat, to close her eyes and unsee, but she couldn't. Instinct took over and she raced to calculate it all. The breadth of it was so
vast, too vast. It was just her and Kioni together, their burden excessive, even for two. The last clear thought she would ever have was of her father, how crimson his burden had been when she'd tried to shoulder it, and how very pale it all seemed now.
I would never ask a person who hasn't tasted a dish whether it needs more salt.
There is this thing that distance does where it subtracts warm and context and history and each finds that they are arguing with a stranger.
When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.
Some people find it easy to be good when the going is good but lack the fortitude for hardship.
Girls with fire in their bellies will be forced to drink from a well of correction till the flames die out.
But my tongue stirred anyway. I stepped into view and threw something of my own.
You shouldn't be stopping a person from feeling natural hardships. That's what it means to be human.
The is the first time that the girl realizes that the world requires something other than what she is. It dampens her for a few days . . . .and then she returns, but with a less light to her.
If you can't please the gods, trick them.
So Bereaver still wanders, not knowing that Ant is lost to her. The girl will carry his secret, and when she is no longer a girl, she will give it to another girl, and this sorrow stone will be stolen away in uniform pockets and hidden under the pillows of marriage beds, secreted in diaries, guarded closely by the type of girls who, above all else, obey.
