Zelie Quotes

“As it fades, I see the truth - in plain sight, yet hidden all along. We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Good hearts don't leave scars like that.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Love is too strong, too intense, for what I feel. For what I am allowed to feel.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“Power is not the answer. It will only intensify the fight.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone

“When the elders built this place, it was only bare mountaintops.' I look to the crowd. 'It didn't become a home because they filled it with towers. It became a home because they built it together. This land, these temples--they're not what matters. As long as we have each other, we will carry Orisha in our veins. No one can ever take that away.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

“I know she has eyes like the moon. I know the faded scar that nicks her eyebrow.”
― Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone