Suyi Davies Okungbowa > Suyi's Quotes

“Stories are like knives: weapons or tools, depending on who is wielding them.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“When you pursue two rats at the same time, you catch neither, the pillar of Logic said.

You do not divide forbidden meat with your teeth, the pillar of Religions and Philosophy whispered.

A child does not play outside so much as to forget home, the pillar of History, Geography, and Languages warned.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“Information before you need it is just as dangerous as the lack of it.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“When people think of us,” she said, “this is what they should remember. Fear and respect are two sides of the same blade, my people, and they are taken, not offered.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“One down, I tell myself. Fifty-eleven to go.”
― Suyi Davies, Minecraft: The Haven Trials