Her Name Is Knight Quotes
"The cacophony is so loud my hands clamp over my ears to drown it all out, but to no avail."
"Tonight, your world will cease to exist. All you love will suffer and die."
"You do not get to tell us shit, just like a bitch to not mind her damn business."
"The force of the attraction made Nena take a reflexive step backward."
"But you, you owe me, Michael. Permit this deal. Let me finally prosper as you have."
"Do with me what you will, but spare my children and whatever is left of this village."
"All I ever hear about in Ghana are the N’nkakuwe's beauties. Have they all gone on holiday?"
"We would never participate in selling our brothers and sisters!"
"Death is better than what Paul commands Ofori do."
"There is only your before and your after. It is what you do after that matters."
"Life for you can be relatively easy if you follow the rules."
"If I do not fetch a price for Paul, if you are not sponsored, you will not return to the Compound."
"You need to get well or get dead or find something to contribute that they can use."
"The other students think I'm a snitch because my dad's an assistant US attorney."
"Don't ever let anyone take that away from you."
"Your name is the first thing your parents give you, besides life."
"Stand up for yourself. Don't accept it just because you don't want to make a fuss."
"I need some intel from you. I'd rather it be you than Elin because I don't want her involved too deeply."
"What you say is treasonous, Nena; be careful."
"My brothers and I have heard this and not known what Papa had meant."
"Paul is like a crocodile. He can wait right beneath the smooth, tranquil surface for the right time to jump out and snatch you into the waters. You’re dead before you realize it."
"To tell Dad now without concrete evidence would destroy him and put my family at risk."
"I’m not ready to blow up his world just yet."
"Even if it meant going against the Tribe’s wishes."
"Maybe I should kill myself," Mamie whispers, her head bowed toward me.
"Dying by her own hand is infinitely better than dying at their hands."
"I am the best," she answered, when asked about her profession.
"I prefer ‘babysitting,’ or to call myself a recruiter," Bridget says, revealing her true role.
"Imagine Africa as the sole benefactor of all our unmined resources and minerals."
"Let bygones be bygones. You have made your point with Attah. Don’t you agree?"
"I hear you, brother. But just like America has senators and congressmen, we can vote, majority rules."
"My point is America has senators for each state that vote on American matters."
"America is one country. We are many countries."
"We are not a government, eh. We’re not politicians; we are businessmen."
"The point is we don’t need representatives from every damn country we get on board."
"We can make the rules the rest of the Tribe will follow. Simple as that."
"We are one Africa. This is our vision, eh? All of Africa united into a large multinational business entity."
"You sound robotic, Nena. You speak very properly, and I know you know multiple languages, and that’s wicked, but you sound stilted."
"To be safe and get your power back? You don’t have to endure this training to be safe."
"The thought of intimacy had always repulsed her. But since Cort, the revulsion had grown less and less."
"I wanted to run the money because, to me, money was the most important thing."
"I am the High Council. All major deals run through me."
"You are a lady at all times, Nena, even when you are doing your job."
"I cannot dictate what the individuals decide to do on their own or what those under their watch do, but when the Council learns of such actions, we take care of it."
"My method of attack is intrinsic. It’s also sloppy and has many points in which your combatant can turn things around on you."
"I met Del when I was twenty. She was seventeen and attending an all-girls uni."
"The Tribe, as we call it, is a conglomerate of countries from all over Africa."
"Our focus is on controlling imports and exports out of Africa."
"I keep going during the rigorous conditioning portion of my initial training, even when my body screams it cannot move another inch."
"But most of all, I want our family protected."
"We are businessmen and women working in unison for the advancement of Africa and the people in it and of it."
"She needs to release the demons she harbors inside."
"Knowing there is a real place out there. Knowing that Africa, in its entirety, is an amalgamation of Zamunda and Wakanda, and I can always go there if I need it."
"Sometimes, we do move people in and out of countries for various reasons—the main reason being that the people want a new life and can’t get out properly."
"I am without the primal drive to survive I had then. Why does Witt want me to relive that horror?"
"It pleases me that he is sharing his past with me, that he can relate to something of the life I lived on the streets."
"This isn’t lemon-pepper wings and gang turf wars, Keigel."
"I’m going to figure out how not to get you killed."
"You can’t run up in there solo. That’s suicide."
"Glad you could make it to our family reunion."
"Just because your son married Elin doesn’t make you family."
"She will never accept me, Oliver; she will never rally behind me."
"You are the only brother I have left."