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“shyness just means you’re not ready to be your real self. I read that in a book once.”
― K.J. Colt, Concealed Power

“The best revenge isn’t killing your enemy. The best revenge is living well.”
― K.J. Colt, Legends: Fifteen Tales of Sword and Sorcery

“Even if what you said was true, that only makes it worse. Truth should be left in wrapped boxes for people to open when they’re ready. When it’s used as a blade, they vacuum-seal the pain somewhere deep inside, sealing the truth in with it, until it’s time to turn it inside out and cut someone else. I”
― Mishell Baker, Borderline

“Suicide is not a way of ending pain; it's just a way of redistributing it.”
― Mishell Baker, Borderline

“Why is some accident of uncontrolled neurochemistry the ‘real me,’ and a carefully reasoned system of priorities somehow false?”
― Mishell Baker, Borderline

“We embrace those things that make us unique or odd. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“There are more valuable things in life than safety and comfort. Learn. You owe it to yourself.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“People are too focused on money. It’s supposed to be a tool, not the prize to be won.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“They don’t teach them to understand others, they teach them to expect others to understand them,” he said in English. He humphed and said, “Americans.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Lambs think money and material things are the most important thing in the world. You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, but if you can brag about money and having lots of things and your bragging is true, that bypasses everything. Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Home will never be the same once you know what you are. Your whole life will change.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Lesson one,” Anatov said. “And this is for all of you. Learn how to learn. Read between the lines. Know what to take and what to discard.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Neither (brother) even glaced at the counter. She smiled. Her dumb brothers never cooked. She didn’t think they even knew how! A human being who needs food to live but cannot prepare that food to eat? Pathetic. In this case, it was an advantage. They weren’t interested in any food until it had been cooked for them.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Sometimes too much knowledge can make you mean. You know too much.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.” What”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Trouble is never hard to find.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“Lies are a thing of the physical world. They can’t exist in the spirit world.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“It’s as I taught you: the world is bigger and more important than you.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch

“They’re capable of great things, but potential doesn’t equal success.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch