413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

I saw the hypocrisy in all the things the priest had taught me. It’s all very well to say the world values reason and compassion and justice, but if nothing in reality reflects those words, they’re meaningless.

Take a nautilus shell; cut it cross section. Gently elevate its swirling, chambered tiers as they approach the tight-bound center, culminating at last in a pinnacle on which we all stood. Note its asymmetrical order, its chaotic repetition, the grace of its linkages. Contemplate the ephemerality of its existence. Such is the beauty that is mortal life.

Home isn’t where the heart is. It’s wherever the wind feels right.

When we say that “the world has ended,” remember – it is usually a lie. The planet is just fine.

In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess... I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

The harbingers of the enemy will hide among the city’s parasites. Beware of them.

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth and master of all.

True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young.

But this is what it means to be civilized – doing what her betters say she should, for the ostensible good of all.