“What can orogeny do against something like that? Keep her breathing, maybe. But breathing doesn't always mean living, and maybe... maybe genocide… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Life cannot exist without the Earth. Yet there is a not-insubstantial chance that life will win its war, and destroy the Earth.… — 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
“It had not been all suffering and horror. Life is never only one thing.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“You’re not used to having a life follow you when you leave it behind.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“He’s the foreground of the painting that is your life together. You’re the background. You like it that way.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“But breathing doesn’t always mean living, and maybe… maybe genocide doesn’t always leave bodies.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia. — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in—if you’re lucky—oblivion.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“you still believe; everyone shouldn’t have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“I would savor every moment of my life that remained, suck its marrow, crunch its bones. And when the end came... well,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“According to legend, Father Earth did not originally hate life. In fact, as the lorists tell it, once upon a time Earth… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“You've never really trusted him, though you don't understand why. Something about the fact that he's hidden all his life - which… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“How do you do it?” you ask. It’s hard to imagine. Not being able to die even when you want to, even… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“She knows in this moment that he will never falter, never not be there when she needs him, never devolve into a… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“There passes a time of happiness in your life, which I will not describe to you. It is unimportant. Perhaps you think… — 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
