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“The power came from translating understanding into belief, from standing so firmly in one’s knowledge of the world that the knowledge itself became an armor—and a weapon.”

Indeed

“You have water, but need Eyes,” he said to the Blind Man. Then he looked at Asilah. “You have Eyes, but need iron. And I…” He looked down at the sand, ashamed of how young and foolish he’d been. “… I have iron, but need water.”
“And yet all of us,” the Blind Man said, “are from the same place.”
“The City of Lies,” Asilah said.”

Epic!!!!

The ajungo’s got to every city and fucked everything up like white colonizers!!!

“Maybe. But he couldn’t ignore the fact that no child who went looking for water had ever returned.”

AHHHHHHHHH

“Different cities, same name,” she said. Then her eyes narrowed. “Same enemy.”

I really wonder who those women are

I like it

“Your mama” I’m so unserious bro something bad happened in the book and I’m here giggling over a your mama joke

“It was a twofold price, a price of blood and a price of history: an untongued people cannot tell their story.
But neither can the dead.”

True

This book is garbage. The only good thing is Neil and THATS IT

So much info my brain is fried

“Hey, Nicky," Andrew said in stage-whisper German. "Don't touch him, you understand?”

You tell em baby boy!!!!

It’s interesting but I’m not hooked yet? Idk

I like coach wymack

Not the random slur ew also Andrew is a jerk

Fuck yeah

Well damn

DARCY BRO NO

Yes, just yes

Can you believe I JUST realized that Bertha so basically the mc of the book is literally the “crazy” woman from Jane eyre? Am I fucking dumb???

I like Antoinette but her husband is already getting on my nerves

He’s getting in nerves already, talking about light and dark in these fucking white supremacist ways ugh

I watched the movie recently but the book is drastically different for now

Well damn

Elizabeth the more I read about you the more I wanna slap you. All she’s related on is her mom hating her.