413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

Perhaps likewise they think Syen enjoys being reminded that she is part of a group now, contributing and contributed to, and that she no longer needs to guard herself against everyone and everything.They're right. That doesn't mean she's going to tell them so.

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

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 teach them life's value.

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.

[...] I'm still hungry and tired all the time, scared all the time, never safe. What good does it do to be valuable, if nobody values you?

What's changed, that a stone eater no longer seems alien to you? Only superficial things about him. Everything about you.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

That would not be human nature. How fortunate, then, that there are more people in this world than just humankind.

Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.