22 Quotes by Tade Thompson

It is never a good idea to cause pain to angels.

I can read minds but I still don't understand women. Or men. Humans. I don't understand humans.

The idea of a singular hero and a manifest destiny just makes us lazy. There is no destiny. There is choice, there is action, and any other narrative perpetuates a myth that someone else out there will fix our problems with a magic sword and a blessing from the gods.

Oyin Da’s mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves.

Maybe humankind was meant to be sick from time to time. Maybe there is something to be learned from illness.

We read classics to flood the xenosphere with irrelevant words and thoughts, a firewall of knowledge that even makes its way to the subconscious of the customer.

It is a certainty, not just a conviction, the way believing in God is a conviction, but believing in gravity is a certainty.

This is a psychofield, a thoughtspace, essentially unstable. While most people conceptualise thinking as this straightforward linear thing, I see ideas spreading out into alternatives before one is selected. In this place every notion can potentially become reality.

No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss.