Becs

“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

“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

“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

“Dangerous is a name for things we do not understand. I am a thing that is not understood, both among my people and among yours.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming