“Hausa, Urdu, Yoruba, Arabic, Efik, German, Igbo, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Sanskrit, even one written in a language Chichi called Nsibidi. “Can you read N—”
― Akata Witch
― Akata Witch
“that night filling potholes along one of the smaller village roads. They’d used a dirt moving and packing juju that Anatov had taught them that very night. For days, Sunny was digging muck from beneath her nails and sweeping dirt from her bedroom.”
― Akata Warrior
― Akata Warrior
“nights were spent “learning by experience.” Leopard education did not have any vacations or breaks aside from certain religious ones like Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha, Christmas, and Easter. For Eid Al-Fitr, while Lamb school was on break, Anatov had all four of them volunteer at a local Muslim orphanage and then work later”
― Akata Warrior
― Akata Warrior
“Monkeys. From a Costa Rican island called Tortuga in the southern part of the Gulf of Nicoya,”
― Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Island Idol
― Skylar Robbins: The Mystery of the Island Idol
“When they arrived at Anatov’s, he was playing one of Fela Kuti’s half hour-long songs. Sunny loved Fela. This was one of the few things she and her father had in common.”
― Akata Witch
― Akata Witch
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