Kovie Biakolo

Hell hath no fury like a Scorpio scorned.

“Before the day I met you, life was so unkind
But you’re the key to my peace of mind”

But maybe words don’t need perfect moments, they just need to be said.

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”

8. The number of people you actually think know you.

“Tinder culture: short-term fun but perhaps not satisfying for the long-term.”

“You’re beautiful,” he says. I stay silent.

Marriage needs more than love in order to be “successful,” I think.

4. “I date for the free food.”

It is a waste of time to tell any person to not love the person their heart desires – they are going to do it anyway.

“One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write nonfiction everyone tries to prove that it’s wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.”

A little contrariness is good. But when you can’t get through an afternoon meal without them wondering why you’d use spinach instead of kale for the side dish, and then they go on to talk about how much better kale is than spinach, it’s time to re-think this entire relationship.

Being a “20-something” has sort of become an industry. It’s not just a specific time of your life anymore.

I think anybody who falls in love is a freak. It’s a crazy thing to do. It’s kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.

What if, in another universe, you didn’t meet them? You don’t know them and they don’t know you. You are alone or you are with someone else, and you are content. They do not exist to you. But neither does the pain in your chest.

The losses were brutal, untimely, and sometimes lasting. The pains came in multitudes, and often. The reasons to cry seemed plentiful whilst the reasons to laugh seemed scarce.

Would you take a “wife bonus?”

Since the domination of the Portuguese over the Persian Gulf region in the 16th century for more than 100 years, a lot of Africans were enslaved and brought to Iran.