413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

No mortal, and probably no god, could comprehend Hado’s life.

Now she understands that his use of the slur is deliberate. A dehumanizing word for someone who has been made into a thing.

Remember, too, that the Earth does not fully understand us. It looks upon human beings and sees short-lived, fragile creatures, puzzlingly detached in substance and awareness from the planet on which their lives depend, who do not understand the harm they tried to do – perhaps because they are so short-lived and fragile and detached.

Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.

But this is no awkward dystopia, where all are forced to conform.

This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another. This has happened before, after all. People die. Old orders pass. New societies are born. When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. But this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. For the last time.

Maybe she’s a Canadian who has been driven mad by the cold and socialized medicine.

No vote,” you say. It’s so quiet that you can hear water trickling out of the pipes in the communal pool, hundreds of feet below. “Leave. Go join Rennanis if they’ll have you. But if you stay, no part of this comm gets to decide that any other part of this comm is expendable. No voting on who gets to be people.

Real love lasts years. It causes pain, and endures through it.