Who Fears Death

"became a different creature that day, not so human”"

"dearly loved, despite the fact that he’d married [her] mother, a woman with an Ewu daughter”"

"“a two thousand year old tradition held on the first day of rainy season”"

"the only one good enough to learn the Great Mystic Points”"

"You can bring life, and when you get old, that ability becomes something else even greater, more dangerous and unstable”"

"like someone with a highly contagious disease”"

"haunted by someone else’s demise”"

"The clarity I was experiencing made the world so crisp and clear. Every sound outside seemed right against my ear. I could hear a desert fox barking nearby and a hawk screeching. I could almost hear Mwita thinking as he came in”"

"ghosts of the future”"

"makes more sense now”"

"discovered life as free women”"

"People of the sand [ who] travel in a giant dust storm”"

"is of the oldest evil deeper than humans”"

"dangerous storm of terrible lightning and thunder and intermittent deluges of rain"

"The Great Book spoke of such places, caves full of computers put here by terrified Okekes trying to escape Ani’s wrath when she turned back to the world and saw the havoc the Okeke had created"

"He so assumed that Luyu would do his bidding that he didn’t notice when Luyu kept right on going”"

"Something was wrong with everyone here. The Okeke didn’t look too bothered as they worked. And the Nuru weren’t openly cruel to them.It was confusing and strange”"

"Because of what she’d seen during her initiation. She was like a character locked in a story”"

"a tall bearded [Nuru] man with a partially burned face, what looked like a severely mangled leg, and only one arm”"

"Those things are only for those of us who were there, the witnesses”"

"Papa was dearly loved, despite the fact that he’d married my mother, a woman with a daughter like me—an Ewu daughter. That had long been excused as one of those mistakes even the greatest man can make.”"

"The Nuru men, and their women, had done what they did [raped the Okeke women] for more than torture and shame. They wanted to create Ewu children. Such children are not children of the forbidden love between a Nuru and an Okeke, nor are they Noahs, Okekes born without color. The Ewu are children of violence. These Nuru had planted poison. An Okeke woman who gave birth to an Ewu child was bound to the Nuru through her child. The Nuru sought to destroy Okeke families at the very root.”"