The Black Pages (Black Stars, #2)

by Nnedi Okorafor

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean. —Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

I’m standing in front of this burning city and I still want peace! —Unknown

“Heat rises, but it also scorches the earth when it is hungry,” she said.

spirits and djinn always linger when there is something to linger for.”

“No place like home, though.”

Allah is great, but the ancestors are always watching.”

Education and the future were important, but family was the true elixir of life.

His mother had once told him that only half of them were actually blood relatives, but none of that really mattered; uncles were uncles.

“It’s black because it is so full of words, there is no space untouched.”