Top 70 Oyinkan Braithwaite Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s because she is beautiful, you know. That’s all it is. They don’t really care about the rest of it. She gets a pass at life.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

2. “You can’t sit on the fence forever.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

3. “Is this how he sees her? As an exotic beauty? I console myself with the knowledge that even the most beautiful flowers wither and die.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

4. “The more he talks, the more I realize that I am a maga – a fool who has been taken advantage of.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

5. “That’s how it has always been. Ayoola would break a glass, and I would receive the blame for giving her the drink. Ayoola would fail a class, and I would be blamed for not coaching her. Ayoola would take an apple and leave the store without paying for it, and I would be blamed for letting her get hungry.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

6. “Why should her hands be clean, while mine become more and more stained?”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

7. “Mummy, it talked! The doll talked!” “She is not a doll, Korede. She is a baby, your baby sister. You’re a big sister now, Korede. And big sisters look after little sisters.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

8. “Yoruba people have a custom of naming twins Taiwo and Kehinde. Taiwo is the older twin, the one who comes out first. Kehinde, therefore, is the second-born twin. But Kehinde is also the older twin, because he says to Taiwo, “Go out first and test the world for me.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

9. “Is it in the blood? But his blood is my blood and my blood is hers.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

10. “He no longer exists for the online world; he can no longer exist for me. He is beyond my reach now in death, as he would have been in life.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

11. “I am a maga – a fool who has been taken advantage of.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

12. “She does not cry for me,” he says, his voice hardening. “She cries for her lost youth, her missed opportunities and her limited options. She does not cry for me, she cries for herself.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

13. “Ayoola, on the other hand – well, it’ll be interesting to see whether she can do anything more strenuous than putting bread in the toaster.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

14. “I am more haunted by her actions than she is.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

15. “Murderers and victims. Every one of them. ‘The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

16. “You know, men are very fickle. Give them what they want and they will do anything for you. Keep your hair long and glossy or invest in good weaves; cook for him and send the food to his home and his office. Stroke his ego in front of his friends and treat them well for his sake. Kneel down for his parents and call them on important days. Do these things and he will put a ring on your finger, fast fast.” My mother nods sagely.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

17. “My heart drops to the floor, but there is no time to pick it back up.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

18. “Is there anything more beautiful than a man with a voice like an ocean?”

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19. “It was a shame to think that death would whittle away at his broad shoulders and concave abs, until he was nothing more than bone.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

20. “Ayoola and I don’t really have friends in the traditional sense of the word. I think you have to accept someone into your confidence, and vice versa, to be able to call them a friend.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

21. “Keep your hair long and glossy or invest in good weaves; cook for him and send the food to his home and his office. Stroke his ego in front of his friends and treat them well for his sake. Kneel down for his parents and call them on important.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

22. “She has minions, and I have Muhtar.”

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23. “It takes a whole lot longer to dispose of a body than to dispose of a soul.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

24. “Ayoola lives in a world where things must always go her way. It’s a law as certain as the law of gravity.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

25. “Stroke his ego in front of his friends and treat them well for his sake. Kneel down for his parents and call them on important days. Do these things and he will put a ring on your finger, fast fast.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

26. “As if Ayoola lives by anyone’s rules but her own.”

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27. “I know better than to take life directions from someone without a moral compass.”

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28. “The knife is important to me, Korede. It is all I have left of him.”

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29. “I bet you didn’t know that bleach masks the smell of blood.”

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30. “We are nothing if not thorough in our deception of others.”

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31. “She will always have me and I will always have her; no one else matters.”

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32. “Braithwaite hopes she can write something one day that “does justice” to her beliefs, but she is clear that a novelist’s first responsibility is to fiction itself. “I like to have fun,” she says. “The books where I can tell I’m being taught.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

33. “It takes a whole lot longer to dispose of a body than to dispose of a soul, especially if you don’t want to leave any evidence of foul play.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

34. “I have found that the best way to take your mind off something is to binge-watch TV shows.”

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35. “We take him to where we took the last one – over the bridge and into the water. At least he won’t be lonely.”

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36. “Granted, she was fourteen, but fourteen then was younger than fourteen now.”

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37. “If hospitals had a flag it would be white – the universal sign for surrender.”

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38. “Ayoola wins Cluedo, but only because I am forced to keep explaining the rules to Tade to prevent him from falling into the traps she is so adept at setting.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

39. “I feel now much the way I felt then. Uncertain, afraid and very sure that something bad is going to happen to me.”

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40. “He isn’t deep. All he wants is a pretty face.”

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41. “She is wearing a bright yellow shirtdress that by no means hides her generous breasts. Her feet are in green, strappy heels that make up for what she lacks in height, and she is holding a white clutch, big enough to house a nine-inch weapon.”

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42. “Her shoulders are trembling, but no sound escapes her lips. Did no one tell her it is painful to cry silently?”

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43. “I dare you to find a flaw in her beauty; or to bring forth a woman who can stand beside her without wilting.”

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44. “Have you heard this one before? Two girls walk into a room. The room is in a flat. The flat is on the third floor. In the room is the dead body of an adult male. How do they get the body to the ground floor without being seen?”

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45. “You can’t rush Yinka, but she slows down intentionally when you push her buttons.”

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46. “I am not sure he sees the nod. His eyes are still fixed.”

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47. “At the time, I could tell that he hoped his generous act and his artistic talents would secure him a place in her heart, or at the very least a place in her bed, but he was short and had teeth that were fighting for space in his mouth. So all it got him was a pat on the head and a can of Coke.”

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

48. “My stomach grumbles; the heart may be broken but the flesh needs to eat.”

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49. “All those smiling parents and their newborns? Murderers and victims. Every one of them.”

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50. “No, no, it’s not a real man, what do you take us for? It’s a mannequin.”

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