Okojie Associates Quotes

#1. Will read a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh at his grandmother's funeral.

"Pondering the joys we had, listen & keep very still. If the lowing from the hill or the tolling of the bell do not
serve to break the spell, listen: you may be allowed to hear my laughter from a cloud.

Lynne Branard

#2. Here he comes, moving among the enemies all on his own. Do you see? He acts alone, but he is not alone. He has an army behind him, also, my army; and with our lives we will fight to defend him.

Elizabeth Wein

#3. British would use every means from persuasion to bribery in Morocco and when those failed the wives of British diplomats knew what they had to do to further Britain's interests.

Margaret MacMillan

#4. Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire

George Matthew Adams

#5. A book is a mysterious object, I said, and once it floats out into the world, anything can happen.

Paul Auster

#6. They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. Everyone's opinions about things change over time. Nothing is constant. Everything changes. And to hold onto some dogged idea forever is a little rigid and maybe naive.

Frida Kahlo

#8. To write good SF today ... you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

Gardner Dozois