# Quote — Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Virtue and Vengeance

> This war didn’t start when magic came back, Inan. You are only seeing the end of a battle countless have given their lives for. By winter’s dawn, we will have wiped the scourge of maji from this land. Even your wretched father couldn’t achieve that.”

- Author: [Tomi Adeyemi](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi.md)
- Book: [Children of Virtue and Vengeance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tomi_Adeyemi#Children_of_Virtue_and_Vengeance) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/this-war-didnt

## More from this book

> (Chapter Eighty-Five )

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/chapter-eighty-five.md)

> Yoruba is sacred to our people. It’s not just something you can learn.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/yoruba-is-sacred.md)

> After the Raid, practicing these incantations was the only part of him I had left.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tomi-adeyemi/children-of-virtue-and-vengeance/after-the-raid.md)