“You taught me that real heroes don't fly — they stand beside you.”
Source: My Dad Rocks: 101 Reasons Why I Love You, Dad: A Guided Fill-in-the-Blank Journal for Dad
“The guard hit Kestrel across the face. “I said, what did you give him?”
You had a warrior’s heart, even then.
Kestrel spat blood. “Nothing,” she told the guard. She thought of her father, she thought of Arin. She told her final lie. “I gave him nothing.”
Source: The Winner's Crime
“But even though I was with my father again, I never felt really secure deep down. I don't know how to put it exactly, but things were never really settled inside me. I always had this feeling like, I don't know, like somebody was putting something over on me, like my real father had disappeared forever and, to fill the gap, some other guy was sent to me in his shape.”
Source: After Dark
“Please find me someone who has never once had the dream of '...and they lived happily ever after,”
Source: Missing Ruth
“I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.”
Source: The Marriage of Opposites
“I profess myself an enemy to all other joys, which the most precious square of sense possesses, and find I am alone felicitate in your dear highness love.”
Source: King Lear
“Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.”
Source: The Marriage of Opposites
“The perpetual rate of election prostitution in Nigeria is appalling and worrying for the future of our democracy. Nigerian politicians don't have the nation's interest at heart; they care less about loyalty to the nation, their party systems, and the political structures, but instead, all they care about is winning by all means, either legal or illegal, to the detriment of losing themselves in the process.”
“Negative people hate other humans being positive and will always try to attack them.”
Source: Zero Negativity: The Power of Positive Thinking
“The people who love you will offer you constructive criticism, because they want you to be the best version of yourself that you can be. They know you’re better than that. They know what you’re worth. They’re not having a pop because they want to bring you down a peg or two.”
Source: Zero Negativity: The Power of Positive Thinking