413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

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    But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?

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    He is older, crueler, more experienced, perhaps stronger, but survival has never really been the province of the fittest. Merely the hungriest.

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    This land made its natural people brown for a reason, though, ma’am, long before either your’n or most of mine came along.

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    The look on her face is one of horror, or perhaps sorrow so great that it might as well be horror. Past a certain point, it’s all the same thing.

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    It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.

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    Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.

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    Suffering is part of life,” she said. “All the parts of life are jumbled up together; you can’t separate out just the one thing.

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    You’re a gift of the earth – but Father Earth hates us, never forget, and his gifts are neither free nor safe.

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