She had always thought the expression ‘making love’ a little maudlin ‘having sex’ felt truer and ‘fucking’ was more arousing, but lying next to him afterwards, both of them smiling, sometimes laughing, her body suffused with peace, she thought how apt it was, that expression ‘making love.’ There was an awakening even in her nails, in those parts of her body that had always been numb.
She touched the scar on his chest, remembering it again. She remembered clearly the firmness of his embrace, and yet there was, also, a newness to their union their bodies remembered and did not remember. She leaned in and kissed him, and at first he was slow in his response, and then he was pulling up her blouse, pushing down her bra cups to free her breasts. “There was, between them, a weightless, seamless desire. Obinze has since married another woman since their youthful courtship, but the connection between them is long-lasting and the two can’t resist falling back into their comfortable, electric attraction. High School Sweethearts from Lagos, Nigeria, Ifemelu and Obinze reunite after years apart. High school sweethearts reunite after years apart in “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
These steamy literary passages will have you questioning why you ever scroll through Netflix when you can pick up a book instead… 1. In a generation where it’s all about digital, visual and quick information, it’s easy to forget about the literary greats that contain endless wisdom about our world and ourselves.
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