Sometimes a man must throw caution to the wind.
Nnedi Okorafor, Lagoon.
“School will bring you more success than marriage.”
“I am the unseen. For centuries I have been here, beneath this great city, this metropolis. I know your language. I know all languages. . . . My cave is broad and cool. The sun cannot send its heat ...”
“You might have liked the United States more, she said. Theyve got more stuff. And if your spaceship is broken, they can probably fix it better.”
“You might have liked the United States more,”” she said. “They’ve got more stuff. And if your spaceship is broken, they can probably fix it better.”
“Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were vo...”
“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the ...”
“Beware of the thief who is after your cash; but be more cautious of the thief in the mind that's after your kind, your promise - your dream, your future.”
“When man will return to nature, nature will return to him.”
“The sky is an enormous man.”
“When the full-grown poet came,Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all its shows of day and night,) saying, He is mine;But out spake too the Soul of man, proud, jealous and unr...”
“Words are wind.”
“Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.”
“I love the feeling of the fresh air on my face and the wind blowing through my hair.”