26 quotes
There was nothing boiling in him, just a loud and clear exhale, a weight of peace wrapping around his heart.”
The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)
Angels aren't pretty pictures in old holy books, just like monsters aren't ugly pictures. It's all just people, doing hard things or doing bad things.”
Pet (2019)
She had tried explaining it so many times, but he was hung up on the woman she used to be, and she was disappointed in the man he still was.
Little Rot (2024)
"The body can carry many truths at the same time."
"Art has always been a place where I could imagine freedom before I could live it."
"I'm interested in telling stories that refuse easy explanations."
This was before Vivek, before the fire, before Chika would discover exactly how difficult it was to dig his own grave with the bones of his son.”
The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)
Never mind if she sat out on her balcony at home sometimes and fought the urge to find him again, wondered what they could be like if they hadn’t crashed together the way they had, wondered what could have been in another timeline.
Little Rot (2024)
"I don't believe that stories have to make people comfortable. Sometimes they exist to unsettle us."
We bled a lot and Saul gave us the injection himself, but the Ada has no scar so perhaps this is a memory.”
Freshwater (2018)
"Identity is not something I arrived at. It is something I continue to negotiate every day."
"I've learned that I don't have to make myself smaller for other people to understand me."
"Writing gave me a language for experiences I had never seen reflected anywhere else."
The revolution needs artists, just like it needs healers and storytellers, just like it needs the organizers and protesters. It's all one big organism working together.
Bitter (2022)
The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence.
Bitter (2022)
You could be so intimate, so familiar with someone’s skin and flesh and spirit, only to wake up one day and find that it had receded from you, suddenly, like a tide rushing back out into the sea, leaving you with dissolving foam and a damp heart.
Little Rot (2024)
Meanwhile, Ala continued to watch her child. After all, the Ada was her hatchling, her bloodthirsty little sun, covered in translucent scales.”
Freshwater (2018)
“I think we’re just figuring out how to survive a world on fire…that it’s okay to be alive.”
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (2022)
Feyi felt like a monster and a traitor, but it was fine, it had to happen.”
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (2022)
Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. ‘Monsters don’t look like anything, doux-doux. That’s the whole point. That’s the whole problem.’”
Pet (2019)