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The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death, #0) QUOTES

The Book of Phoenix (Who Fears Death, #0) QUOTES

1 " I love books . I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas . I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud "

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

2 " To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it. "

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

3 " Human beings make terrible gods. "

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

4 " 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 "

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

5 " Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud. "

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

6 " But I hoped he couldn’t read my mind. No one needed to know that. Not even him. He chuckled, again. “That is to be decided by your actions, Phoenix. Not by your thoughts. "

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

7 " Who are the big eye? Are they a secret part of the American government or a powerful private corporation? Is there a difference? "

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

8 " I knew I could always return to my books. Not escape, return. I knew so much, but so little. You can have knowledge, but you are nothing without wisdom. "

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

9 " I knew so much, but so little. You can have knowledge, but you are nothing without wisdom. "

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

10 " But now I see something new in your eyes. Now, when I look into them it's like looking into a mirror. Your innocence is gone."
"Death will do that," I wanted to say. But I did not. "

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

11 " 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. "

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

12 " This man was one of those who enjoyed being out there for weeks on end, close to the sun, sand, and desert creatures. The time away from his wife made their time together sweeter. Sunuteel and his wife agreed on this. They were old. They had wisdom. “Go "

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

13 " Are they a secret part of the American government or a powerful private corporation? Is there a difference? To me, it doesn’t matter. It’s the same ends. "

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

14 " They called me Okore. It meant “eagle” in Twi, though I felt my wings were more like an albatross’. But there is no word for albatross in “Twi,” so Okore was fine. "

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

15 " 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)