413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

And what do they even call this? It’s not a threesome, or a love triangle. It’s a two-and-a-half-some, an affection dihedron.

Nothing human beings do is set in stone – and even stone changes, anyway. We can change, too, anything about ourselves that we want to. We just have to want to. People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.

Oree,” she would say whenever I sought to prove my independence, “it’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.

Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.

A small taste of respect for those who needed it so badly, so that they might come to crave it and eventually seek it for themselves.

We can never be gods, after all – but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” – T. E. Lawrence, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph.

It was too much for him, the knowledge that all of this had happened before. That he was the scion of a people abused; that those people’s forebears were, too, in their turn; that the world as he knew it could not function without forcing someone into servitude.

The Woman then takes Aislyn’s hand and pumps it, too virogously. “Yes. Pleasedtomeetyou is appropriate, yes? We’re both composite entites for whom the boundaries of space, time, and flesh have meaning! Let’s be besties.