Listen, days decay, like food, like fish, like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget. - Chigozie Obioma

Time is not a living creature that can listen to pleas, nor is it a man who can delay.

Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome

Guardian spirits of mankind, have we thought about the powers that passion creates in human beings? Have we considered why a man could run through a field of fire to get to a woman he loves? Have we thought about the impact of love on the body of lovers? Have we considered the symmetry of its power? Have we considered what poetry incites in their souls, and the impress of endearments on a softened heart?”