“What the rust do you matter? Who cares about you? Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? Once, you did have people who… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We began to call ourselves Maroneh, which meant "those who weep for Maro" in the common language we once spoke. We named… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“My mother was the most beautiful woman in the world. I say that not because I am her daughter, and not because… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It was simply that I knew, or had known, precisely why he did not love all his children equally. Differentiation, variation, appreciation… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The Nightlord cannot be controlled, child. He can only be unleashed. And you asked him not to kill.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me," I said. "I want to be myself." "Don't be a child." I… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“She isn’t afraid anymore; fury has steeled her. She is so very much her mother’s daughter.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“You’re my redemption, Nassun. You are all the children I should have loved and protected, even from myself. And if it will… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“When a comm builds atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how I feel about a canon anymore ... The sheer volume of books that exist out there means that a canon… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“[...] the kind of healer who knows that sometimes one must inflict terrible agony - rebreak a bone, carve off a limb, kill the… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“You waver, because you don’t really want to know … but you haven’t been a coward for some years now. So you steel yourself… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“What can orogeny do against something like that? Keep her breathing, maybe. But breathing doesn't always mean living, and maybe... maybe genocide doesn't always… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“What the rust do you matter? Who cares about you? Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? Once, you did have people who cared about… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Let me say only that these vehicles float a few inches off the ground. No animals draw them. No steam or chemical fuels them.… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
