413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.

Mortals are the sum of many things, Sieh. They are what circumstance has made them and what they wish to be. If you must hate them, hate them for the latter, not the former. At least they have some say over that part.

There’s truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

He’s waiting for her to say it out loud and violate the unspoken contract that covers white people who are doing everything short of tossing around the n-word in public.

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don’t you like you, either.

And then we will understand that people cannot be possessions. And because we are both and this should not be, a new concept will take shape within us, though we have never heard the word for it because the conductors are forbidden to even mention it in our presence. Revolution.

Life endures. It doesn’t need to do so enthusiastically.

Her fingers fly across the keyboard with the uncanny speed of anyone younger than thirty.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we’ve earned a little annihilation.