Lost Ark Dreaming Quotes

“You ask why I have come here? I come seeking understanding, but I also come bringing it.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“Dangerous is a name for things we do not understand. I am a thing that is not understood, both among my people and among yours.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“I love how you say conquer when you mean erase.
Let me borrow from their sayings here: they who rewrite stories are doomed to create monsters.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“My dearest All-Infinite-

You must understand
that this is the way
the world always ends:

in

worthy questions
left unanswered
lonely
hearts and empty eyes;

lapping warnings
nightly silence
ripples
in the undersea.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“Every story you believe, that you incorporate within the self, decides who you are. And the greatest weapon against freedom is to believe stories that plant a seed in your heart yet have no place growing there.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“We do not wish harm or destruction on you,” said Yekini. “At least, not us three. But I’m not sure how we can help you in your quest. As you can see, we are incapacitated ourselves.”

Understandable, said Omíwálé. But you must remember: it is fate that has brought us together, not me. Each one of us here has somehow tasked themselves with making our world better than it is—helping a people divided by time and tales come together. What are we if not called and chosen?”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“We are but messengers, Omíwálé said to Tuoyo. Every once in a while, we perish at the mercy of the weighty stories we carry. But sometimes--sometimes, we prevail, and the stories we carry change the world.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“You will need to let it go, you hear? Or at least use it for something good."

"What?"

"The anger, the pain, the quest for self-destruction," she said. "If you're going to use it, use it for something good. Don't self-combust for nothing.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“There are stories in this world, Omíwálé said. Bigger than you, than all of us in this room, than this tower, than every Child of Yemoja undersea. Stories of civilizations just like yours and mine, fallen because they could not each recognize a world--worlds, even--beyond themselves. Peoples so limited in thinking that they were happy to be subjected to the slim imagination of a few, if only it offered them safety in a world too big for them to comprehend. But it is not for us to understand the vastness of the world. It is for us to understand our place in it.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“And, dear child, you cannot hate your own history. To hate your history is to hate yourself.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“Listen, child," Maame said. "Every story you believe, that you incorporate within the self, decides who you are. And the greatest weapon against freedom is to believe stories that plant a seed in your heart yet have no place growing there.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“Okay, wow, you're an intense woman," Ngozi said, recoiling.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“Now see, there were those who Have and those who Did Not Have. They fashioned elegant words for this false arrangement, called them things like nations. And those who Have--for all they did was have and choose--chose to have what they couldn't.

This, friend, is the way the world always ends, has always ended since we have watched it together: with those who Have choosing demise--always demise--for everything but themselves.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“What are we but stories that touch?”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“This, friend, is the way the world always ends, has always ended since we have watched it together: with those who Have choosing demise—always demise—for everything but themselves.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“He'd been too young to remember the events, though not too young to remember the feelings. That period of his life, he'd chalked up to one long nightmare he'd never revisit. Until today, that was.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“We are but Messengers, Omíwálé said to Tuoyo. Every once in a while, we perish at the mercy of the weighty stories we carry. But sometimes - sometimes, we prevail, and the stories we carry change the world.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming

“His greatest fear was not loss. It was uselessness,
Make it count, Lota had said. And that was exactly what he was going to do.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Lost Ark Dreaming