## Metadata - Author: [[Tade Thompson]] - Full Title: Rosewater - Category: #books ## Highlights - He taught me a lot and changed me from an unfocused psychic teenager to a slightly focused bootleg psychic adult with money. Both of us, he and I, are liminal, on the edge of civilisation at all times. ([Location 934](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B077MGY96X&location=934)) - I am tired of women and men of destiny. The idea of a singular hero and a manifest destiny just makes us all 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.” ([Location 3323](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B077MGY96X&location=3323))