413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

Home is people,” she says to Asael, softly. Asael blinks. “Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.” Heresmith.

Innocence is nothing but a ceremony, after all.

Immortality gets very, very boring. You’d be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.

It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too.

The Darren language has a word for the attraction one feels to danger: esui. It is esui that makes warriors charge into hopeless battles and die laughing. Esui is also what draws women to lovers who are bad for them – men who would make poor fathers, women of the enemy.

But it is one thing to resolve to die, quite another to actually carry out that resolve in the midst of dying.

Veneza laughs, tilting her head back like she’s drunk. “I’m Jersey City, goddamn it!

Imprisonment of orogenes was never the only option for ensuring the safety of society... Lynching was never the only option. The nodes were never the only option. All of these were choices. Different choices have always been possible.

There’s truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.” “Only if one knows the knowledge is tainted in the first place.