Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
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in Lagos, Nigeria
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February 2016
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Stay with Me
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2017
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A Spell of Good Things
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2023
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Spent Lives
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2015
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Ayobami Adebayo 2 Books Collection Set
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Au temps des damnés et des bénis
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Queda't amb mi
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Clarion Calls: An essay from the collection, Of This Our Country
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Window
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Un lampo di fortuna
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Stanna hos mig
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“If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love.”
― Stay with Me
― Stay with Me
“Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were to the world when we are gone.”
― Stay with Me
― Stay with Me
“So love is like a test, but in what sense? To what end? Who was carrying out the test? But I think I did believe that love had immense power to unearth all that was good in us, refine us and reveal to us the better versions of ourselves.”
― Stay with Me
― Stay with Me
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“London was perfectly prepared to give him a night out of anywhere on earth, and yet all he asked was to come home.”
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
“Perhaps this was what love was like after all- not the lurch of going over a humpback bridge, and not the incandescence of fireworks, just the quiet understanding that one should take a kind hand when it was offered, before all light was gone from the sky.”
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
“There was something about the star, rising above the stable, that still pulled a crowd in from the fields.”
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
“In the end I suppose we lay flowers on a grave because we cannot lay ourselves on it.”
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven
― Everyone Brave Is Forgiven