“When a person lies to you once all you can think is what else. What else are they hiding? What other untruths have been said? To your face, to someone else; behind your back. And how. How do you begin to clean out this room in your heart? Unearth the love? Wash the walls clean white? Undo their stench from your blood. Their stench from your skin. And how. How do you begin to detach from them. And the you in them. And the I in us.” LoveTrustLiar Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“Too much?” You laugh because you know it is untrue. One can never be too much for a person that can never get enough of them.” LovePassionInfatuation Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“Lately, everything in my universe has made it hard to forget. I look at this new man sure he is everything I once wanted. But body does not feel the same when it is not my third or fourth hand holding it. The sweetness of an apple is not the sweetness of a grape. There is no tingle when he says name. No spark when he touches skin. We are not twins, Ejima. He is not you and I am not him.” LoveRomancePassionChemistry Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“Sometimes I fall for the mystery, thinking what I am falling for is the man.” LovePassionMystery Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“Painful habits: 1. Forgetting friends to lose myself in lovers. Remembering them only when love is lost again. 2. Knowing that real love does not need convincing but trying anyway. 3. Building castles of projections, making pedestals out of dreams. 4. Crowning temporary visitors Kings.” LovePassionRelationshipsGrief Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“I do not want to touch your heart with dirty hands because you are a prayer. A thing I asked the heavens for. My light that guides the way. And I do not know how else to tell you that I love you but to listen when you speak. Feel your pain when you are hurting. Tell you I miss you when you are not with me.” LoveRomancePassion Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“You describe her as an Eden. This rare, unknowable place. Distant. And you tell me to wear her skin but I refuse. I shift in my seat. Distant. What is it about the men that go looking for old lovers in new women. And why is it that they always want you to touch them like she touched them. Wear her head like a show piece. Use her words as lipstick.” LoveRomanceDramaConflictExes Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“Since you’ve been gone Nkem, I am not so sure what hardens me more. The days I spend wondering if my name and our shared memories still rummage through the quiet parts of your wonderful mind. Or the nights I must now waste imprisoned to this bed without you.” LovePainLoss Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“The heart betrays the mind by thinking for itself.” LoveRomanceBetrayal Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.
“Loving a black man feels like chewing glass. Drinking air. Fighting blood.” LoveRaceBlackness Author:Ezinne Orjiako, Nkem.