Nnedi Okorafor

The greatest adventure lies not in our surroundings, but in the depths of our own souls.

Fear is a prison, and only by facing it can we truly be free.

We fear what we don’t know.

Withholding the truth is lying.

“Are you willing to allow other the same right to their beliefs?”

“If their beliefs don’t hurt others and, when I feel the need, I am allowed to call them stupid in my mind, then yes.”

“Is it better to give or receive?”

“They’re the same,” I said. “One can’t exist without the other. But if you keep giving without receiving, you’re a fool.”

Just because something is not alive, does not mean that it is dead. You have to be alive first to be dead.

Mortality smelled muddy and wet and I reeked of it.

People hate what they don’t understand.

When I am not moving toward my fate, it comes to me.

There is nothing that a man must believe that can’t be seen or touched or sensed.