413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

Her heart breaks in this moment. Another small, quiet tragedy, amid so many others.

Beware ground on loose rock. Beware hale strangers. Beware sudden silence. – Tablet One, “On Survival,” verse three.

It was said that the gods favored fools because they were entertaining to watch.

She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.

What’s changed, that a stone eater no longer seems alien to you? Only superficial things about him. Everything about you.

What can orogeny do against something like that? Keep her breathing, maybe. But breathing doesn’t always mean living, and maybe... maybe genocide doesn’t always leave bodies.

She cannot imagine a world where people who mean well can do any real.

And if one tendril has turned a nosy, racist white woman into a conduit for disembodied existential evil, he doesn’t want to see what infected NYPD will become.

He pretends to be less special than he is, because the world has punished him for loving himself.