# Nnedi Okorafor

- Quotes: 23
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor

## Books

- [Noor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/noor.md) — 4 quotes
- [The Book of Phoenix](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix.md) — 10 quotes
- [Who Fears Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/who-fears-death.md) — 9 quotes

## Recently added quotes

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/strength-comes-not.md)

> The fire in my veins burns hotter than any sun.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/the-fire-in-my-veins.md)

> Our bodies may be fragile, but our spirits are unbreakable

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/our-bodies-may.md)

> 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.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/noor/if-you-could.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/we-all-have.md)

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

p. 159 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/noor/i-will-never.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/i-love-books.md)

> True beauty lies in embracing our flaws and imperfections.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/true-beauty-lies.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/to-know-someones.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/the-book-of-phoenix/i-speak-my-life.md)

> “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.”

p. 185 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/noor/the-problem-with.md)

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

p. 178 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nnedi-okorafor/noor/it-was-obvious.md)