N.K. Jemisin

“Don’t look back,” Schaffa advises. “It’s easier that way.” So she doesn’t. Later, she will realize he was right about this, too.…

— N.K. Jemisin

“But what is important is that you know it was not all terrible. There was peace in long stretches, between each crisis.…

— N.K. Jemisin

“All things change in a Season—and some part of you is tired, finally, of the lonely, vengeful woman narrative.”

— N.K. Jemisin

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done;…

— N.K. Jemisin

“An experiment," she said ... "I am leaving Nahadoth and Itempas alone together for a while. If the universe starts coming apart…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Man, people don' need no monster to make 'em do evil-hearted shit. All it take is a brown face, or somebody wearin'…

— N.K. Jemisin

“You understand these moments, I think instinctively. It is our nature. We are born of such pressures, and sometimes, when things are…

— N.K. Jemisin

“So where they should have seen a living being, they saw only another thing to exploit. Where they should have asked, or…

— N.K. Jemisin

“And maybe it means you’re choosing one of your children—the one who has the best chance of survival—over the other. But that’s…

— N.K. Jemisin

He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Just because you're the god of vengeance doesn't mean you have to be some brooding cliché, forever cackling to yourself and totting…

— N.K. Jemisin

“The stabbing is the outcome of an impossible choice he demanded of her: to be either his daughter or an orogene. She…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Can you truly understand what a nation is capable of, child of the Stillness? The entirety of Old Sanze, once it finally…

— N.K. Jemisin

“This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Nassun can't see his face, and must gauge his mood by his broad shoulders. (It bothers her that she does this, watching…

— N.K. Jemisin

“The younger man stepped away from the table and came toward me, his whole posture radiating menace. Every Darre woman is taught…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Someday, you must tell me what it's like there. Why all who come out of that place seem so very competent... and…

— N.K. Jemisin

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among…

— N.K. Jemisin

“ We will never be anything but strange to them. I answer in angry basso push-wave throbs. This is not about them. ”

— N.K. Jemisin

“He makes you feel like a better person than you are. And this is what makes you regret, again, endlessly, that you…

— N.K. Jemisin

“The Fulcrum is not the first institution to have learned an eternal truth of humankind: No need for guards when you can…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell…

— N.K. Jemisin

“It’s a waste of your time to teach them.” This dismissal, inexplicably, starts to eat through your patience. “It’s never a waste…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Let me say only that these vehicles float a few inches off the ground. No animals draw them. No steam or chemical…

— N.K. Jemisin

“The alternative is to demand the impossible. It isn’t right, they whisper, weep, shout; what has been done to them is not…

— N.K. Jemisin