Anthony was calm as an underground river. Father Oke was a volcano ready to erupt.
Suffering is against the Way. Let us end you.
Why don’t I ever want to do what I’m supposed to do?
There is witchcraft in science and a science to witchcraft. Both will conspire against you eventually.
As I have repeated incessantly throughout this book, there is no direction you can turn that does not face you toward certain death.
Tribal”: that’s what they called humans from ethnic groups too remote and “uncivilized” to regularly send students to attend Oomza Uni. Over.
How different my life would have been if my parents had just let me dance.
I speak my life into existence with each expressed breath I take. I tell you a story within which are more stories. Universes within universes. We are all spinning like small suns. I am like my own sun. I.
It was cool in the terminal, but I felt the heat of social pressure.
Whenever my father allowed me to buy a new book, I spent hours in my room with my eyes closed as I listened to it on my astrolabe. In many of those stories, a curious person would find a secret or magical object that would change her or his life. I’d always wanted that to happen to me. And now I was sure this was it.
You are a Leopard Person only by the will of the Supreme Creator, and as we all know, She isn’t very concerned with Her own creations.
Fear of failure leads to more failure!
Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.
Does the soul transform too? Adaora wondered. She’d never believed in God, but she was a scientist and knew that matter could be neither created nor destroyed. It just changed form.
These roads are full of ghosts.
I believed I could only be great if I were curious enough to seek greatness.
When I should have reveled in this gift, instead, I’d seen myself as broken. But couldn’t you be broken and still bring change?
Human beings have a hard time relating to that which does not resemble them. It’s your greatest flaw.
Superstitions are like stereotypes in a lot of ways. Not only are they based on fear and ignorance, they are also blended with fact.
Her story travelled like an ancestor, always ahead of, beside and behind her.