413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

Libraries are safe places.

So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.

Some might say it also makes them monsters.” Bronca lifts an eyebrow. “Some, I guess. But I always figure those people must be the ones starting all the fights.” Bronca shrugs. “Abusers know kids like this are the ones who sometimes grow up – if the abusers don’t kill them first – to fix the world wherever it’s broken. Enough kids like this equals the end of abusers.

Was it really wrong of me to remember the past fondly? It wasn’t. Of course it wasn’t. But the past was an easy meal after all. I could taste it again any time I wanted in memory and it would always be perfect and true. The here and now though had no recipe. It might be sour or bitter or raw.

When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt.

Let’s start with the end of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.

But if he can find your daughter, he can be the Evil Earth incarnate and you won’t give a damn.

I like being an orogene, Daddy, she says. His eyes widen. This is a terrible things that she is saying. It is a terrible thing that she loves herself.

And I don’t care how they feel. They don’t have to rusting like us. What matters is what they do.