413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

This is just how life is supposed to be: terrible and brief and ending in – if you’re lucky – oblivion.

Necessity is the only law, says stonelore.

When things are bad, change is good, right? Change means things will get better.

But without love of the self, others’ love will never be enough.

Her eyes are shockingly black – shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she’s wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the world is ending.

But if you stay, no part of this comm gets to decide that any part of this comm is expendable. No voting on who gets to be people.

One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.” – Thomas Wolfe.

Too many New Yorkers are New York. Its acculturation quotient is dangerously high.

This is a terrible thing that she is saying. It is a terrible thing that she loves herself.