My mother had become a obsession for me, a religion, and the very thought of referring to another woman as Mother seems sacrilegious, a betrayal of t… - Ayobami Adebayo

Didn't think it was possible for the world to change so suddenly. I was aware of other people moving up and down the corridor: I heard heels clicking, people speaking, felt some bodies push past mine. But I felt so alone, as though within the space of time it had taken Yejide to say, "They have taken Olamide to the mortuary" I had been transported to a planet with no human life.

The reasons why we do the things we do will not always be the ones that others will remember. Sometimes.

Maybe she was one of those people for whom satisfaction lay only in the future, forever slightly out of reach.