“Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.”

—  Chi­ma­man­da Ngo­zi Adi­chie, book Half of a Yellow Sun

Source: Half of a Yellow Sun

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