“She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.” — 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
“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
“Mother isn’t ashamed of anything she’s done. If she was, why would she do it?” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It is horrifyingly obvious now that getting more attention isn't necessarily favoritism.” — 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
“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
“The fires within the earth are nothing to what you’re feeling right now, failed mother that you are.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Cannot a human man love his father, yet not believe he is a good person?” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Father Earth thinks in ages, but he never, ever sleeps. Nor does he forget.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore… — 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
