Son of the Storm Quotes

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

“You say you want liberty, but you can never be free alone. None of us are free until all of us are.”
― 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

“We owe a responsibility to ourselves,” she said. “To protect the truth. To protect our truth from a world that seeks to make us believe otherwise about ourselves.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“You think it is just lies that break lives? The revelation of truth, especially one that people would prefer not to accept, does the same.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“We may come from different castes, and our struggles may be different, but our reasons are rooted in the same soil.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“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

“She stepped forward, her hand within her wrappers. “That is what you have always got wrong, Cockroach. Liberty is not offered. It is reclaimed by blood, by the same manner in which it was taken.”
― 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

“If there was anything a player should do, it was play to the fullest of their ability, and most importantly, play to win, employing everything in their arsenal.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“How could one explain a toothache to someone without teeth?”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“There is no such thing as a necessary evil,” Biemwensé said. “There is only evil.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“She’s too…” She seemed to be searching for the right word in High Bassai. “Like when you’re on two sides of a thing.”“Diplomatic?”“Like that,” she said. “It’s a dangerous thing for a leader of an oppressed people to be like that.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“This is the face.” She pointed to the last general, who opened his mouth and showed the dark space where a tongue was supposed to be. “And Tamino just does what he is told.”Esheme frowned at the man. “What happened to your tongue?”“He doesn’t like to talk.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“True freedom is not refusing to show pain when being whipped, but reclaiming the whip with which one has been flagellated.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“Our people say, If you want to catch a landfowl, you pursue the whole brood, because you don’t know which one has the bad leg.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“An arrow insists it is flying when, in truth, it is expiring.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“She stepped forward and closed the space between them. “This is my city. Nobody, I repeat, nobody, can run me out of this place I have given my life to. Not you, not your First Elder. I am MaaEsheme, of the household of Nem and all of those who have come before her. We were here when you crossed into the mainland, and we will be here when you leave. Remember that.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“As the jalis say, when all the antelopes in the forest are dead, the hunter’s tales are all we have left.”
― 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

“He thought about easing his hand back into hers, but was unsure which was now the greater risk: holding her hand or not holding it at all. He stuck with the status quo.”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm

“Stories are like knives: weapons or tools, depending on who is wielding them. Especially those that are written down and can be traced back!”
― Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Son of the Storm