413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It’s that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn’t go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can’t wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!

The stone eater’s arm rises, so steadily that the motion surpasses graceful and edges into unnatural.

There was no peace in continuing to do what had already proven unworkable. Sometimes tradition itself disrupted peace, and only newness could smooth the way.

Have to watch that. When I’m frustrated, I speak too much truth.

You keep thinking about Alabaster, too, though. Is this grief? You hated him, loved him, missed him for years, made yourself forget him, found him again, loved him again, killed him. The grief does not feel like what you feel about Uche, or Corundum, or Innon; those are rents in your soul that still seep blood. The loss of Alabaster is simply... a thinning of who you are.

Someday, you must tell me what it’s like there. Why all who come out of that place seem so very competent... and so very afraid.

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul.

Sulking is petulant, pointless anger. Mine is righteous.

When a comm builds atop a faultline, do you blame its walls for crushing the people inside when they inevitably crumble? Some worlds are built upon a faultline of pain, held stable – temporarily – by nightmare walls. Don’t lament when they fall apart. Lament that they were ever built in the first place.