413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.

He's not a parasite if she needs him, too, and if she gives what he will not take. (One day soon, she will learn the word symbiosis and nod, pleased to have a name for it at last. But long before that, she will have already decided that family will do.)

Money talks and bullshit walks in New York. In a lot of cities, probably—but here, the nation’s shrine to unrestricted predatory capitalism, money has nearly talismanic power. Which means that he can use it as a talisman.

There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

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 your whining.

But these people are always gonna tell themselves that a little fascism is OK as long as they can still get unlimited drinks with brunch!

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?