Akata Witch

We embrace those things that make us unique or odd. For only in these things can we locate and then develop our most individual abilities.

Home will never be the same once you know what you are.

It wasn’t hard to find, even in the rain. Trouble is never hard to find.

These scholars all seemed to like making things seem so huge and mysterious. It was beginning to get on her nerves.

First she had to put up with Anatov’s incense addiction and now she’d have to try not to breathe in this man’s disgusting smoke.

There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It’s a risk you take. This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.”

“All those people…they have stories and lives and dreams,” Orlu said.

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

Her father would only laugh and say that ‘boys should be boys.’ Sunny didn’t ever want to be a boy—but she didn’t want a father who hated her, either.

one hand, she carried her black umbrella. In the other was her blue purse with a stick of lip gloss, some sunscreen, a washcloth, a mango, her mobile phone, and enough money for lunch and a little whatever.