https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/52207427-what-it-means-when-a-man-falls-from-the-sky on Lesley Nneka Arimah

“When Enebeli Okwara sent his girl out in the world, he did not know what the world did to daughters. He did not know how quickly it would wick the dew off her, how she would be returned to him hollowed out, relieved of her better parts.”

“Girls with fire in their bellies will be forced to drink from a well of correction till the flames die out. But my tongue stirred anyway. I stepped into view and threw something of my own.”

“There is this thing that distance does where it subtracts warm and context and history and each finds that they are arguing with a stranger.”