413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. But this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. For the last time.

Six billion people working toward a goal together is much more effective than a few dozen scrabbling for themselves.

Veneza is so much of what Bronca could have been, if she’d come up in a better world – and so much of what Bronca is now, because the world is still a goddamn shitshow.

There is no logic to grief.

Don’t look back,” Schaffa advises. “It’s easier that way.” So she doesn’t. Later, she will realize he was right about this, too. Much later, though, she will wish that she had done it anyway.

You’re very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you.

Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh – and love does not mandate forgiveness.

Psychotic breaks must be hell on inner ear balance.

This new one – who has always and only been male – named himself Bright Itempas, because he was an arrogant, self-absorbed son of a demon even then.