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Lagoon QUOTES

Lagoon QUOTES

1 " School will bring you more success than marriage. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

2 " Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

3 " I am the unseen. For centuries I have been here, beneath this great city, this metropolis. I know your language. I know all languages. . . . My cave is broad and cool. The sun cannot send its heat down here. The damp soil is rich and fragrant. I turn softly on my back and place my eight legs to the cave ceiling. Then, I listen. I am the spider. I see sound. I feel taste. I hear touch. I spin this story. This is the story I’ve spun. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

4 " You might have liked the United States more,”” she said. “They’ve got more stuff. And if your spaceship is broken, they can probably fix it better. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

5 " Adaora was beginning to see why Ayodele’s people had chosen the city of Lagos. If they’d landed in New York, Tokyo or London, the governments of these places would have quickly swooped to hide, isolate and study the aliens. Here in Lagos, there was no such order. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

6 " All of them watched the footage, even Fisayo. After it finished, none of them said a word, yet in their minds, they saw plenty. Jacobs saw an end to living with parents who refused to accept him. His sister Fisayo saw all of Lagos in flames. Seven saw infinite possibilities and a people from outer space that could make the world embrace and love everyone. Rome saw the rise of Rome. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

7 " Just because you are American does not make you American. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

8 " The tarantula scrambles faster, certain that he will make it across. Certain of his extraordinary speed. Crunch. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

9 " She flies higher than she’s ever flown before, maybe she is trying to leave the earth. She isn’t sure, she isn’t thinking about it. She’s far in her mind, deep in her own thoughts, the air on her wings feels amazing, she is swimming, rolling through the air as if it’s water. She lifts her head as she flies and lets out a series of loud chirps. And that’s when she sees it. The largest bat ever. Flying faster than any hawk or eagle or owl, roaring like some sort of monster. She doesn’t know the human word ‘dragon’ otherwise she would call it that. There is no time to flee. No time to turn. No time to shriek, and no pain. It is like being thrown into the stars. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

10 " He wished he were at his home in Abuja with a glass of cool Guinness, watching Star Wars on his high-definition widescreen television. He loved Star Wars, especially the more recent instalments. There was such honour in Star Wars. In another life, he’d have made a great Jedi knight. Being a vigilante loyal only to justice was always better than being any kind of head of state. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

11 " If there were aliens, they certainly wouldn’t come to Nigeria. Or maybe they would. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

12 " When are aliens ever not evil?”
“E.T.?” Rome said. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

13 " When she was afraid, nervous, or uncomfortable, all she had to do was focus on the science to feel balanced again. It was no different now. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

14 " Look, Brother Chris, women are . . . weak vessels. It is identified in the Bible. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

15 " How can a man slap his wife ‘in the name of Jesus’? You instructed him to do so! You think I didn’t see your e-mail to him a week ago? ‘Break her with your hands, then soften her with flowers. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

16 " Human beings have a hard time relating to that which does not resemble them. It’s your greatest flaw. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

17 " sharklike creature collide with Agu. A moment later, the creature was flying out of the water, hurled a hundred feet in the air. Adaora could see its great toothy jaws gape. Then splash! "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

18 " 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. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

19 " You fit get me inside dere?” he asked, his voice lusty in her ear. “I go try, baby,” she whispered. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon

20 " Edgar never used the rhythm to do violence again. But when he got on stage, when he rapped and let the words flow from his tongue like warmed honey, he could feel it. It would be there when he needed it. So far, he hadn’t needed it. "

― Nnedi Okorafor , Lagoon