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.

There are more valuable things in life than safety and comfort. Learn. You owe it to yourself.

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.

They don’t teach them to understand others, they teach them to expect others to understand them,” he said in English. He humphed and said, “Americans.

They’re capable of great things, but potential doesn’t equal success.

Lesson one,” Anatov said. “And this is for all of you. Learn how to learn. Read between the lines. Know what to take and what to discard.

Lambs think money and material things are the most important thing in the world. You can cheat, lie, steal, kill, be dumb as a rock, but if you can brag about money and having lots of things and your bragging is true, that bypasses everything. Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.

People are too focused on money. It’s supposed to be a tool, not the prize to be won.

Home will never be the same once you know what you are. Your whole life will change.

Neither (brother) even glaced at the counter. She smiled. Her dumb brothers never cooked. She didn’t think they even knew how! A human being who needs food to live but cannot prepare that food to eat? Pathetic. In this case, it was an advantage. They weren’t interested in any food until it had been cooked for them.

This world is bigger than you and it will go on, regardless.” What

Lies are a thing of the physical world. They can’t exist in the spirit world.

It’s as I taught you: the world is bigger and more important than you.

Trouble is never hard to find.

Sometimes too much knowledge can make you mean. You know too much.

Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.

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

Lambs are on a constant, unrealistic, irrational, and unnatural quest for perfection. They seek to have bodies with no blemishes or disease; that do not age; that have perfect eyes, noses, and lips all in the right places; that are thin like fashion models’ or muscular like athletes’; that are tall, lacking warts, extra fingers, pimples, scars; that always smell fresh like flowers; etc. There are no Lamb cultures where people do not strive for this inferior thing called perfection, no matter their definition of it. We Leopard folk are nothing like this. 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. Even you, free agent, have an ability given to you by the omnipotent, distracted Supreme Creator.

As I have repeated incessantly throughout this book, there is no direction you can turn that does not face you toward certain death.

You are a Leopard Person only by the will of the Supreme Creator, and as we all know, She isn’t very concerned with Her own creations.

- Porque não é assim que a vida funciona - retrucou Anatov. - Quando as coisas vão mal, elas não cessam até que você dê cabo da maldade… ou morra.

French, a bit of Hausa; I’m pretty good with Arabic,” Sasha said. “Arabic?” Chichi said. “Really?” “My father taught me,” he said. “He’s in the military. He was stationed in Iraq for four years.” “Can you write in it?” Chichi asked. “Yep. Even better than I can speak it.” “Nice,” Chichi said.

When they arrived at Anatov’s, he was playing one of Fela Kuti’s half hour-long songs. Sunny loved Fela. This was one of the few things she and her father had in common.