Quote by N.K. Jemisin

“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.”

— N.K. Jemisin

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

“She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“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

“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

“[...] 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

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

“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?”

— N.K. Jemisin

“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

“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

“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

“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