N.K. Jemisin Quotes

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• If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part…
• There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
• But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.
• There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.
• I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god…
• It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent…
• We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
• Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.
• You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't…
• And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should…
• But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible,…
• He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping…
• It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous.…
• 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 man.
• In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either…
• Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.
• You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of…
• Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
• You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance…
• They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We…

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