“… there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.”

—  Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie, book Americanah

Source: Americanah

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