Becs

“My dearest All-Infinite-

You must understand
that this is the way
the world always ends:

in

worthy questions
left unanswered
lonely
hearts and empty eyes;

lapping warnings
nightly silence
ripples
in the undersea.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“We are but Messengers, Omíwálé said to Tuoyo. Every once in a while, we perish at the mercy of the weighty stories we carry. But sometimes - sometimes, we prevail, and the stories we carry change the world.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“His greatest fear was not loss. It was uselessness,
Make it count, Lota had said. And that was exactly what he was going to do.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“I love how you say conquer when you mean erase.
Let me borrow from their sayings here: they who rewrite stories are doomed to create monsters.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming