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Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2) QUOTES

Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2) QUOTES

1 " Do not take juju lightly, unless you are looking for unexpected death. Juju cartwheels between these pages like dust in a sandstorm. We don’t care if you are afraid. We don’t care if you think this book will bring you good luck. We don’t care if you are an outsider. We just care that you read this warning and are thus warned. This way, you have no one to blame but yourself if you enjoy this story. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

2 " Overconsumption is a universal human trait,” Orlu pointed out. “And so is ignorance. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

3 " Stay out of trouble. Be positive forces to the world. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

4 " Do not take juju lightly, unless you are looking for unexpected death. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

5 " Fear of failure leads to more failure! "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

6 " Sunny nodded. But her mind was not on the problems of the black African diaspora. She was thinking about what it was going to be like to meet with a giant sentient spider who was thousands, maybe millions, of years old while she was impaired by doubling. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

7 " Leopard People read books by everybody and everything. We look outside and inside. But you have to be secure with yourself to do either . . "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

8 " Work a little harder and be more confident. Our bond is broken; some compensation is required. It’s like loving and cherishing someone without needing the bonds of marriage to enforce it,” Anyanwu said. “By sinister means, you and I are free.” Sunny sat with Anyanwu’s words, staring into the pouring rain. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

9 " As she sat in her seat on the near-empty funky train home, she’d curled her body toward the window and shut her eyes. She took a deep breath, truly relaxing for the first time in hours, and this was when she felt that sensation of being pulled into two. Her eyes shot open and as she stared out the window, she began to quietly weep.
‘Anyanwu?’ She whispered. And then she heard herself respond in a deep voice, ‘Sleep, Sunny, I am here. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

10 " parents wouldn’t be home yet, but if Ugonna was home and "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

11 " the universe guides us all,” Chichi said. “It’s up to us to listen. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

12 " A core characteristic of being a Leopard Person is that one of your greater natural “flaws” or your uniqueness is the key to your power. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

13 " Greetings from the Obi Library Collective of Leopard Knocks’ Department of Responsibility. We are a busy organization with more important things to do. However, we’ve been ordered to write you this brief letter of information. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

14 " I’d have loved to see the pain in their faces if they then learned what the word meant. But a word like that, you don’t really need to know what it means. The meaning is all in the way it’s said, the sound of it. It’s ugly. It’s an insult. It’s like a dagger that is a word. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)

15 " Superstitions are like stereotypes in a lot of ways. Not only are they based on fear and ignorance, they are also blended with fact. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts #2)