Sade Adeniran

"It was mean of him to expel her just because she didnt keep her legs closed. Maybe if I kept my legs open Id also get expelled and Daddy would have to find me another school for me to go in Lagos"

"I went into the bushes to do a number two… I thought I had finished, but I could still feel something there so I used some leaves to wipe my bottom and there it was – a giant worm sticking out of my bottom! I screamed and started running with the worm dangling behind me… I stood there crying with my pants down, dress up and worm sticking out."

"If someone dies every week or so for the next five years then Ill never go hungry again…"

"The time has come for me to start my life"

"Whatever the dead man see in the burial ground is caused by death"

"Why, why, why, why? I hate them all, I want to go home. I dont want to live with my Auntie, I dont want to live in Idogun. I want everything to go back to the way it once was, with Daddy, Adebola and me living at number 4 Egbecombe House."

"It is a pity i dont have long hair or live in tower, I couldve left strands of hair along the way, which my prince could have followed after to Idogun and we would have lived happily ever after"

"If hunger forces a farmer to eat both his yam tubers and his seed yams, the years to come will have no yams to eat and none to plant"

"I was going to live with her and no amount of sobbing and begging was going to change his decision"