Nnedi Okorafor

Strength comes not from avoiding suffering, but from enduring it with grace and resilience.

The fire in my veins burns hotter than any sun.

Our bodies may be fragile, but our spirits are unbreakable

If you could, wouldn’t you replace your damaged legs with cybernetic ones? Why hold on to malfunctioning or poorly formed flesh and bone because “we were born with it”? That’s something said only by people who have no choice or have no actual experience with being…unable. What makes you you, really? I’m a mechanic. When something isn’t working, you replace it with something better, something that is working.

We all have the power to embrace our scars and rise like phoenixes from the ashes of our pain.

I will never believe in Christ or Allah or any other God. I will never follow any religion.

I love books . I adore everything about them. I love the feel of the pages on my fingertips. They are light enough to carry, yet so heavy with worlds and ideas . I love the sound of the pages flicking against my fingers. Print against fingerprints. Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.

True beauty lies in embracing our flaws and imperfections.

To know someone's pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.

I speak my life into existence with each expressed breath I take. I tell you a story within which are more stories. Universes within universes. We are all spinning like small suns. I am like my own sun.

“The problem with you,” Force said, “is that you’re so used to pain and discomfort that your definition of feeling okay is not the greatest indicator of being okay.”

It was obvious who the Elders were. Important-looking men wearing important clothes being looked at by everyone else because they were important.