413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

The way of the world isn’t the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

It is important to give just the right instructions. He thinks in loopholes.

Everyone breaks, if torture goes on long enough. The mind bears the unbearable by going elsewhere.

Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.

How much I’ve had to fight my own internalized racism in addition to that radiating from the fiction and the business. How terrifying it’s been to realize no one thinks my people have a future. And how gratifying to finally accept myself and begin spinning the futures I want to see.

Don’t be patient. Don’t ever be. This is the way a new world begins.

Would’ve been nice if we could’ve all had normal, of course, but not enough people wanted to share. So now we all burn.

In the wake of that, Sunandi could do nothing but allow a moment of proper Gujaareen silence. There was something to the custom, she had decided some years ago, of letting a brief passage of time cleanse the air, after dangerous words and thoughts had tainted it.

The opposite of liking is not disliking, after all. The opposite of liking is apathy.