N.K. Jemisin

“But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally…

— N.K. Jemisin

“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

“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”

— N.K. Jemisin

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

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

— N.K. Jemisin

“Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Life endures. It doesn’t need to do so enthusiastically.”

— 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

“there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“If the Niess were merely human, the world built on their inhumanity would fall apart. So… they made us.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“She can’t explain it. Lines of force, lines of sight, mathematical configurations; all of the knowledge that she needs is in her…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Eres insignificante. Una entre millones, ni especial ni única. Yo no pedí esta ignominia y me sentí ofendida por la comparación. Muy…

— N.K. Jemisin

“After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one’s being. I am me, and you. Damaya…

— N.K. Jemisin

“makes him blink and focus through the blur. “You’re Schaffa,” she says. “You are! And … and you chose.” Because that’s important.…

— 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

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

— N.K. Jemisin

“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

“One person's normal is another person's Shattering." Your face aches from smiling. There is an art to smiling in a way that…

— N.K. Jemisin

“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves,…

— N.K. Jemisin

I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying…

— N.K. Jemisin

“There is no word for such a catastrophe. It would liquefy the surface of the planet, vaporizing the oceans and sterilizing everything…

— N.K. Jemisin

“Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh--and love does not mandate forgiveness.”

— N.K. Jemisin

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

— N.K. Jemisin

“This is our role: To weave together those disparate energies. To manipulate and mitigate and, through the prism of our awareness, produce…

— N.K. Jemisin

There is nothing foolish about hope.

— N.K. Jemisin