Adaora Quotes & Sayings

This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it. — Catherine Deneuve

Can you zoom in?" The foreman rolled his eyes. "This here ain't CSI - it's Radio-fucking-Shack. — Guillermo Del Toro

sharklike creature collide with Agu. A moment later, the creature was flying out of the water, hurled a hundred feet in the air. Adaora could see its great toothy jaws gape. Then splash! — Nnedi Okorafor

If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog. — Charley Reese

PAPA'S NAME, UZO, meant "door," or "the way." It was a solid kind of name, strong-like and self-reliant, unlike mine, Ijeoma (which was just a wish: "safe journey"), or Mama's, Adaora (which was just saying that she was the daughter of all, daughter of the community, which was really what all daughters were, when you thought about it). — Chinelo Okparanta

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Adaora was beginning to see why Ayodele's people had chosen the city of Lagos. If they'd landed in New York, Tokyo or London, the governments of these places would have quickly swooped to hide, isolate and study the aliens. Here in Lagos, there was no such order. — Nnedi Okorafor

Building a business where everyone thrives — Kip Tindell

Modernity kills ghostly romance

("The Undying Thing") — Barry Pain