Sade Adeniran

Quotes

• “It was mean of him to expel her just because she didn't keep her legs closed. Maybe if I kept my legs open I'd also get expelled and Daddy would have to find me another school for me to go in Lagos”
• “I went into the bushes to do a number two… I thought I had finished, but I could still feel something there so I used some leaves to wipe my bottom and there it was – a giant worm sticking out of my bottom! I screamed and started running with the worm dangling behind me… I stood there crying with my pants down, dress up and worm sticking out.”
• “If someone dies every week or so for the next five years then I'll never go hungry again…”
• “If hunger forces a farmer to eat both his yam tubers and his seed yams, the years to come will have no yams to eat and none to plant”
• “The time has come for me to start my life”
• “Why, why, why, why? I hate them all, I want to go home. I don't want to live with my Auntie, I don't want to live in Idogun. I want everything to go back to the way it once was, with Daddy, Adebola and me living at number 4 Egbecombe House.”

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