"Your life is your road, Mara. God puts you at the start of this road and propels you to walk on, and only He knows wh…"

"After all, I was also party to it all even if involuntarily. And I guess that my punishment for it is that I am stuck…"

"I have decided to stop thinking about ever going home. I just don’t belong there any longer."

"… this ministries man, he is not only a bad man and bad husband, he has also got something inside his head. I only ho…"

"what African man gets angry because his wife was carrying a baby? And the first baby at that."

"He was lying on the mattress, face up, looking thoughtfully at the ceiling when I entered. Cool, composed and authori…"

".....Akobi beat me a lot at home, yes, but somehow I identified beatings like this with home. That African men also b…"

"Why couldn’t I take control of my own life, since after all, I was virtually husbandless and, what did my husband car…"

"You were green then, Mara. Totally green. And I was also in love with Osey then. And I did what Osey ordered me to do…"

"My husband brings me from home to a foreign land and puts me in a brothel to work, and what money I make, he uses to …"