“he doesn't know it, but this touching she does is not only compassionate, but possessive.”

“Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other's hidden pain it could work out and even be beautiful, but it doesn't feel safe to be the only compassionate person on the planet.”

“It is very fascinating to observe one Ngwa politician who is dreaming of becoming the future governor of Abia State Nigeria, yet he/she does not know what he/she doesn't know.”

“I hope he doesn't know he just touched my leg.And nothing happened.”

“Hugo has been infinitely tender with me, but while he talks of June I think of our hands locked together. She does not reach the same sexual center of my being that man reaches; she does not touch that. What, then, has she moved in me? I have wanted to possess her as if I were a man, but I have also wanted her to love me with the eyes, the hands, the senses that only women have. It is a soft and subtle penetration.”

“He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.”