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The wilderness is the spirit realm.
Wilderness Quotes in Akata Witch
The Akata Witch quotes below are all either spoken by Wilderness or refer to Wilderness. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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“But I can tell there’s more to you. I just know it.”
“What do you mean, more?”
Chichi smiled mysteriously. “People say stuff about people like you. That you’re all ghost, or a half and half, one foot in this world and one foot in another.” She paused. “That you can…see things.”
Sunny rolled her eyes. Not this again, she thought. So cliché. Everyone thinks the old lady, the hunchback, the crazy man, and the albino have magical evil powers. “Whatever,” she grumbled. She didn’t want to think about the candle.
Chichi laughed. “You’re right, those are silly stereotypes about albinos. But in your case, I think there’s something to it.”
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Chapter 15
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“How many chittim fell when it was over?”
“Seven coppers,” Orlu mumbled. “We could have gotten people killed and we got paid for it.”
“As a group you made a mistake and you learned you could also right it,” Anatov said.
Chapter 21
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“Grandma,” she whispered. As the old blind woman at the council meeting had said, Sunny looked nothing like her. But what did that matter? She smiled to herself and carefully put the picture back in the box.
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Wilderness Term Timeline in Akata Witch
The timeline below shows where the term Wilderness appears in Akata Witch. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 6
Sunny, because she’s albino, has one foot in the real world and one in the wilderness (the spirit world). Chichi and Sasha say that Sunny should be able to make herself...
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Chapter 21
...could make herself invisible and go back and forth between the physical world and the wilderness.
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