" He smiled. “Go and stretch your wings.”

I don’t know why, but his words made me want to cry. I saw no cybernetic limbs, mutations, alterations, additions, or subtractions on Lurrenz. He was just a man. He was like the people I met on my way to Ghana. He accepted what I was as if it were normal. He gazed at me but didn’t stare. His world was big and there was room for me.

Saeed took my hand as I slowly got out and came around to the driver’s window. “Thank you,” I said to Lurrenz.

He took my free hand. “Jah will protect you.” Then he kissed my hand and let us go. I felt like I’d been blessed. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death, #0)