“It happens like this. "One day you meet someone and for some inexplicable reason, you feel more connected to this stranger than anyone else--closer to them than your closest family. Perhaps this pe...”

“You were you,and I was I;we were twobefore our time.I was yoursbefore I knew,and you have always been mine too.”

“Before I fellin love with words,with setting skies and singing birdsit was you I fellin love with first.”

“Like time suspended, a wound unmended-- you and I. We had no ending, no said goodbye; For all my life, I'll wonder why.”

“Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyesa blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I see a flicker a light that shone from them; I hold him to me tightly,...”

“I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way aroundall sad people write.”

“There is safety in numbness there is solace in sleep.”

“I loved you once and now I must spend my whole life explaining why.”

“Every letterthat she types;every keystrokethat she strikes-To spell your nameagain and again,is all she everwants to write.”

“I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.”

“You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they dont prevent you from making the right decisions later on. Its harder, but its not impossible.”

“Nigeria has divided itself into PDP and APC.The PDP is to go on making mistakes while APC is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.”

“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”