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Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1) QUOTES

Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1) QUOTES

1 " You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. He never built a shrine or a temple or even a shack in the name of Tia. In the Great Book, her name is never mentioned again. He never mused about her or even asked where she was buried. Tia was a virgin. She was beautiful. She was poor. And she was a girl. It was her duty to sacrifice her life for his. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

2 " To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

3 " The Nuru men, and their women, had done what they did for more than torture and shame. They wanted to create Ewu children. Such children are not the children of forbidden love between a Nuru and an Okeke, nor are they Noahs, Okekes born without color. The Ewu are children of violence.

An Okeke woman will never kill a child kindled inside of her. She would go against even her husband to keep a child in her womb alive. However, custom dictates that the child is the child of her father. These Nuru had planted poison. An Okeke woman who gave birth to an Ewu child was bound to the Nuru through her child. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

4 " Oh, how our traditions limit and outcast those of us who aren't normal. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

5 " Los okekes tienen la piel del color de la noche porque fueron creados antes que el día. Fueron los primeros. Más tarde, mucho después de eso, llegaron los nurus. Proceden de las estrellas, y por eso su piel es del color del sol. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

6 " Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are! "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

7 " I was young but I hated like a middle-aged man at the end of his prime. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

8 " We'll never know exactly why we are, what we are, and so on. All you can do is follow your path all the way to the wilderness, and then you continue along because that's what must be. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

9 " I was a trapped animal. Not trapped by the women, the house, or tradition. I was trapped by life. Like I had been a free spirit for millennia and then one day something snatched me up, something violent and angry and vengeful, and I was pulled into the body that I now resided in. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

10 " If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

11 " Butterflies understand the desert well. That’s why they move this way and that. They’re always Holding Conversation with the land. They talk as much as they listen. It’s in the desert’s language that you call the butterflies. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

12 " My mother once said that fear is like a man who, once burned, is afraid of a glow worm "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

13 " Fate is fixed like brittle crystal in the dark. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

14 " We all are born with burdens. Some of us more than others. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

15 " the girl who was so lovely even her father couldn’t resist her. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

16 " one is going to take action. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

17 " If you don’t recognize yourself, then who is the one who reminds you of who you are? "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

18 " I think juju was worked on us at our Eleventh Rite. It’s . . . probably broken with marriage.” I looked hard at Luyu. “I think if you force intercourse, you’ll die.” “It is broken with marriage,” Diti said nodding. “My cousin always talks about how only a pure woman attracts a man pure enough to bring pleasure to the marriage bed. She says her husband is the purest man around . . . probably because he was the first who didn’t bring her pain.” “Ugh,” Luyu said, angrily. “We’re tricked into thinking our husbands are gods. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

19 " As the day progressed we moved inside. Well into the night, we talked about nothing much of substance. Insignificance. Wonderful unimportance. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)

20 " A tool always begs to be used. The trick is to learn how to use it. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Who Fears Death (Who Fears Death, #1)