Quotes by Nigerian Authors - Page 137

...and he will never grasp that what he calls 'bitching' is merely my heart talking out loud.
Alfa H
She tells everyone she's taken. Yet her heart whispers: he's taking too long.
Alfa H
There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past that was more of a horror story than a fairytale.
Alfa H
I'm not afraid of anything anymore. I've found out Ghosts don't hide under my bed or in my closets either. They exist in plain sight - everyday; Conjured up by 'our song' playing on the radio. By the mailman's blue eyes that are so like yours I could get utterly lost in them. They come as raindrops, kissing my skin... the way you used to. Ghosts are everywhere.
Alfa H
It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions.
Alfa H
I wear the words we didn't say. My heart is clothed in them every day.
Alfa H
You think it's easy to forget someone who made you look forward to tomorrow... And I hope you never experience convincing a paralyzed heart to keep on beating when it simply wants to die.
Alfa H
She knows he's not the same. He's different now. The eyes that once held too much contain nothing at all. He is colorless. Faded like sun-drenched wallpaper. The man that stands before her has no answers to her questions, and no ointment for her fears.
Alfa H
Having to explain to someone how they hurt you, always feels like an ass kicking... again.
Alfa H
I've never met anyone who loves in the same way. But that's the beauty of finding the heart meant for yours. The right love will accept the 'not so lovable' parts of you too.
Alfa H
Like yourself, just as you are. Don't look at people and measure your self love by what they project in order to make themselves happy. Take a long look. You don't want their lives anyway. You don't like anything they do, say, or portray. Why then have you been so hard on yourself? You don't deserve to be treated that way.
Alfa H
I hear you knocking but I can't let you in. The last time almost killed me. Love, My heart
Alfa H
When our eyes met, I felt your intake of breath. I knew then I wasn't alone in my feelings. You were trying to hold on to normalcy as much as me. But baby, what we felt was anything but normal. The damn planet stopped moving... and it didn't start up again until you reached out and touched me.
Alfa H
I have waltzed with wolves and howled at the moon. But my heart will always remember the slow-dance that ended much too soon.
Alfa H
You are not disposable. I know you feel that way when people choose to walk out of your life, but their emptiness causes space. And that vacant area of your life is desperately crying out for the one meant to take up residence. Let the angry tenant go. You don't want someone staying because you've begged and pleaded for their occupancy. You want the one who sees your quaking heart and says: "Honey I'm home".
Alfa H
Love does not pay attention to timetables or knock when it is convenient for you. True love shows up unexpectedly, bags fully packed, daring you to offer it a place to stay.
Alfa H
Love is not complicated. It just 'is'. The complicated part is finding two souls who are feeling it as the same time in their lives... and for each other. Feeling it so deep that they're willing to fight every second of the day to keep it alive. That's the complicated part.
Alfa H
That you were able to walk away, gives me my answer as plain as day.
Alfa H
Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that take them to heart, and some who take them to soul.
Alfa H
We are the kind of Love Story that keeps souls awake at night and causes hearts to have stage fright.
Alfa H
I'm still in love with the parts I believed to be true. All the lies that began and ended with 'I love you'.
Alfa H
I loved him... much more than I liked him. And therein was the beginning of the end.
Alfa H
Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.
Alfa H
All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly it hurts to know that I was used and tried for a time. Then thrown back.
Alfa H
How do you know they aren't the one? At the first sight of total disregard for your hurt, your gut will feel uneasy. I'm reminding you to listen up.
Alfa H
If I had known his favorite game was mental twister, I would have suggested a movie over game night.
Alfa H
Let me be clear. I applaud self love. I appreciate self value. But if you're not capable of loving another person just as much... you will never experience true love.
Alfa H
I never asked anything of him, yet he gave me everything. he did not run...
Alfa H
She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but to engulf her all at once. She was home.
Alfa H
Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go if you don't.
Alfa H
I always wanted you close. Never more than a heartbeat away. I used to think I wanted you most when I was at my weakest, and relying on your strength. But the truth is, even on the days I raged like a lion, and had no need of a 'pat on the back' - I still found myself wanting to lean on you.
Alfa H
Tell me about the love you've lost. Maybe my story won't seem so horrifying.
Alfa H
It may happen once or perhaps several times during your lifetime, but you'll meet a 'soulmate'. The bond will be instantaneous. They'll be a perfect fit for the empty indention your heart has for rent, and you'll almost think you 'wished' them into existence. One touch... and every pent-up emotion you have buried, will flood your aching heart. The magic is never more apparent that when you realize each of your souls are a perfect template of each other.
Alfa H
I don't expect you to fight over me... But I do expect you to fight for me... for us.
Alfa H
I'm tired again this morning. Was I sleepwalking in your nightmares again last night?
Alfa H
She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.
Alfa H
He said he'd never opened up to anyone... But that confiding in me, was like learning to breathe all over again. I don't know about you, but how do you turn away from that?
Alfa H
I wouldn't go back in time to erase you... No. I'd go back just to feel you twice. Then I'd press replay - again and again.
Alfa H
I wanted it to be you. I wanted your eyes to be locked with mine during every fear and tear experienced throughout my lifetime.
Alfa H
If you find yourself still clinging to every feeling you thought was lost forever... Maybe, just maybe, it's the only place you can be found.
Alfa H
I'm not simple. Loving me will never be easy. I bring every travesty that's rocked me- with me, to the table. I won't pretend to be something I'm not, and I don't expect you to be blemish free either. That's much too boring of an existence. A past means you've lived, you've prevailed. My ears are open. My heart is accepting. I want to know how you are. I want to know what made you... and I want to feel free to share the 'not so pretty' parts of me, with you.
Alfa H
The day she realized they were never meant to be, is the day she now calls her - Birthday.
Alfa H
I write about pain so you know you're not alone. I've felt it too. I'm releasing it... in hope that you will too.
Alfa H
I was feeling a bit overwhelmed earlier. Thinking - what if it doesn't work out this time... again. And then I remembered my rebound rate is pretty damn good. It's my super power.
Alfa H
All of the reasons we decided to part, elude me now.
Alfa H
And I find myself asking again and again.... What was it about such a beautiful man, who was able to leave such ugly scars?
Alfa H
He thought she was like all the rest... that she'd be swayed by his attention and charm. But she got tired of watching him chase his own ass and dealing with his funny farm.
Alfa H
Every word on every page, represents a love that captured this heart... fully, and never set it free.
Alfa H
Show me a little bit of your soul under all those pretty words you spill, and I promise you I will drink every last drop.
Alfa H
You're asking yourself if you will ever get over it. - I don't believe we ever do. Getting over something implies you floated on past the pain, blew kisses, and waved goodbye while leaping to freedom. I've never been able to jump after having the contents of my heart scattered and sewn over fields that will produce memory-laden blooms. The thing is... you get through it. But the seeds have been planted. Those memories grow. And every morning I still hear: 'He loved me. He loved me not.
Alfa H
There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.
Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody, i am single.
Michael Bassey Johnson
People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
Michael Bassey Johnson
There are no boundaries concerning your passion for education. No harm done, no offense given! Those who take education as an ass-suffering task makes it so because they have a phobia for alphabets.
Michael Bassey Johnson
Every Intelligent person was once a fool.
Michael Bassey Johnson
School will bring you more success than marriage.
Nnedi Okorafor
Education without discipline and integrity is a wasteA man who acquires school certificates but lacks self discipline and integrity is not educated.
OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Discovery Determines The System Of Education
Sunday Adelaja
Education Is An Attempt To Discover Unwritten Laws That Governs The Earth
Sunday Adelaja
Education Helps To Understand Natural Laws And To Some Extent Spiritual Principles
Sunday Adelaja