13 Quotes by Chinelo Okparanta

She smiled just a little, as if to hide how powerful the words made her feel, but Chinasa saw it all the same: the way her face seemed to say that she had gotten the vengeance she sought. The kind of vengeance that turned love into a weapon. Tit for tat. You do me, I do you.

If theirs was a goal of arriving at versions of themselves that they deemed better—perhaps more valuable—than their current selves, then who could blame them? And yet, they were in fact to be blamed.

Suddenly she could see her future in the relationship: a lifetime of feeling like an afterthought.

Wasn’t it the belief, after all, that women looked more beautiful during ovulation—or more gorgeous, if you would? At least there was an upside.