Broken Places & Outer Spaces Quotes

“Sometimes the burn is quiet, gradual, unassuming, private. I learned what a short story was in that class. I learned that a story had a beginning, a middle, and an end. That there was voice, point of view, tense, and style. All these things I’d known from consuming novels for a decade and a half, but not on a conscious level.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected

“What we perceive as limitations have the potential to become strengths greater than what we had when we were ‘normal’ or unbroken…when something breaks, something greater often emerges from the cracks.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected