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Bolu Babalola

  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    Ọṣun knew that, when they were together, Ṣàngó drowned in her, died and came back to life in her, and that when their hips rolled together, it was stormy waves; almighty, thrilling, terrifying. She knew she tasted like honey and liquor and that she left him both satiated and insatiable, tipsy, and all at her whim.
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    Ọṣun was used to being looked at, but, from this moment, she would become used to being seen.
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    he kissed me; because it was in public, it was quick, but quick did not mean passionless. He kissed me and I felt like I’d drunk a whole row of the supermarket’s finest wines. My knees were weak. He kissed me and my second favourite pair of jeans automatically fit me better, curved around me better when his hand filled the back pocket. He kissed me, slipped a little tongue into my mouth, just a little promise, enough flavour to make me ravenous,
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    I forgot that he knew me. I was so used to being with men who didn’t.
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    If you want to call it quits, then do it, but I won’t let you make me do it. If you want to walk out right now, do it, but you’re not going to make me push you out.
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    I hope every time you try to un-fall in love with me you fail.
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    I’d told him everything about myself; not on purpose, it just happened. It was a natural reaction to the ease I felt around him and it was irresistible, being that free. It felt so good that I didn’t trust it and I treated it like a vice, when actually, maybe it was good for me? Maybe it was a good thing I deserved to have? It just felt too good, too fairytale, too storybook, too too, because I wasn’t used to it.
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    Some nights we would talk with words, others just with our bodies, developing our language, discovering new ways to say I love you; I see you, I hear you, me and you.
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    I felt like there was an infinity within our affinity, that our connection was so deep and so fathomless that there was no way we could be bound by something as mundane as dawn. We were our own suns.
  • Lilohas quotedlast year
    I’d never felt more alive than when you made me breathless;
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