Lorraine Harrell

“You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.”
― Ben Okri

“My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry

“What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?

The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.”
― Ben Okri, A Way of Being Free

“Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories”
― Ben Okri, Birds of Heaven