Quote by N.K. Jemisin Download Open image ““It’s a geode. You can sess that, the way the rock around you abruptly changes to”” — N.K. Jemisin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Look, I don't know what you are, but you're more than a geologist, if you are one at all. I've met lots of geologists on different projects like this, and they're all tiny sunburned men with fetishes for geodes. They wear floppy hats and carry baggies for soil samples around with them. ... And geologists don't make rocks disappear like… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share
“In the boulder at my back, there is a shudder, so slight that at another time it might have gone unnoticed. The tremor comes… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“Well, if nothing else, you are that rock. You can look at it and know that even though the elements can change your shape,… — June Gray Copy Share Image
“I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The world moves at a geological pace, no pun intended. That is, there’s lots of standing still, doing nothing much, and then the occasional… — Garon Whited Copy Share Image
“You may know that a cascade of water can wear away stone, but you can't predict what shape the rock will take at any… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
“How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“only a thin steel ring that cut the rocks in half. The rocks went on into the depth, unchanged. They began” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“For the first few miles the highway ran through a little valley dotted with rocks that seemed to have fallen from the sky. Chunks… — Roberto Bolaño 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