“I definitely haven’t been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Where there is… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh--and love does not mandate forgiveness.” — 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
“I have decided that I am in love, but love is a painful hotspot roil beneath the surface of me in a… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Time grows short, my love. Let’s end with the beginning of the world, shall we? Yes. We shall.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong… — 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
“This is a terrible thing that she is saying. It is a terrible thing that she loves herself.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“The quality of the light through the amethyst, as the sun slants toward setting, stirs a feeling of longing and relief in… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“I have decided to live,” he said quietly. That, too, was obvious from the way he’d changed in the past year. I… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we… — 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
