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Okwiri Oduor
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“She said that true love was just like this - sweet in some parts, sour in others. She said that deep love was vast and pure, but that it also got hateful in some of its corners where the sunlight did not touch. She said that you could not love without hating. And that you most certainly could not hate a person without loving them first.”
Okwiri Oduor (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My love for you is deep, but even then, it's not always so. Sometimes my love for you is lukewarm at best. And sometimes I feel nothing for you. Nothing at all. I search inside myself for that hot, scalding love and it's not there anymore.”
Okwiri Oduor (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stop, Rosette wailed, her voice tremulous. Stop thinking about Things That Happened in the Past. Stop thinking about Things We Lost. I can't bear it.”
Okwiri Oduor (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mbiu, with a loneliness, a disquiet inside her, and beyond that, a swirling presence, something at once strange and familiar.”
Okwiri Oduor (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A story about stories, about the labor of memory-work. It is a story about leaving and returning, a story familiar to so many of us, a story, in some ways, about the way returns are never possible. In the final moments, it becomes a story about a kind of impossible world. It is about a world made less possible because a person imagined to be a fixture in the world no longer exists in that way. It is, in some ways, about the ethics of the stories we tell, how we tell them. It is also about how we listen, and who we listen to.”
Okwiri Oduor (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t write to send anything out. I write because… well, for example, “My Father’s Head” is a very personal story. All the stuff that was going on with me, I just felt like writing, putting my thoughts down in a story. I didn’t mean for it to go anywhere, I didn’t imagine that it would go anywhere. And then when it was done, I sent it out, and it got rejected several times.”
Okwiri Oduor (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“December staggered in like a weary mud-encrusted vagabond who had been on her way to someplace else but whose legs had buckled and now she was here. On the second, which in Mapeli Town was known as Epitaph Day, the townspeople awoke while the sky was still silver, still tinged with ruffles of pink and blue. They gargled salt water. They greased their elbows. They tucked a flower in their hair or pinned it on their lapel. They marched to the schoolhouse, where the flag flapped at half-mast for all those who had drowned in the river or choked on a fishbone or stepped on a puff adder while walking to the marketplace. With eyes bleary and heads bowed, the townspeople thought of all the ones they had ever lost. They sang Luwere-luwere-luwere until their voices crackled. They murmured, Go well, Opembe, or, Greet our people, Makokha.”
Okwiri Oduor (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The family lives in this humongous house that Nabumbo considers gaudy and ugly, but Ayosa doesn’t think of it as wealth. It’s a resting place for shadows. It’s a resting ground for what was there before, like these aristocratic ambitions, this terrible woman Mabel Brown, her daughter who was terrible as well, and this intergenerational isolation from the rest of the community. They tried to maintain this wealth, but now it’s crumbling, and there’s less of it with every passing generation until in the end, it’s Ayosa looking around her, and she’s just the loneliest girl in the world, and the house feels like a prison to her, and everything’s just falling apart. It’s not a mansion anymore. It’s just a really poorly renovated decrepit ugly thing that they live in.”
Okwiri Oduor (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source