Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi

Dream Count

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quiet felt the failure, and so I talked and talked, thinking how quickly we adapt, or pretend to adapt, to a life reduced to screen and sound

How slippery moralities are, how they circle and thin and change with circumstance

It is easy to be sad, sadness is a low-hanging fruit. Hope and happiness you have to reach higher for, and I didn’t teach her how

The male ego is a phenomenon easy to predict

Misery always had seemed a big dramatic emotion, but I knew now that it was small and slow-dripping, a shallow submerging that felt eternal

Nkechi A

“Mummy, I don't know what I'll do when you leave” she said. “My visa is long-stay”, her mother said. “I'm not going anywhere yet.

“It is easy to be sad; sadness is a low-hanging fruit. Hope and happiness you have to reach higher for and I didn’t teach her how.”.

“We issued advance payment guarantees for contracts inflated by three or four hundred percent, and I moved the surplus from the contractor’s account to accounts owned by the governor but which were not, of course, in his name.”

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