413 Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

Many things have broken him. He holds himself together with spit and endless smiling, but all can see the cracks.

It is horrifyingly obvious now that getting more attention isn’t necessarily favoritism.

Power is not a thing that can be given.

But of course, Bronca herself is the Bronx, and the Bronx don’t trust nobody but the Bronx, so maybe her distaste for everyone else is just as inexorable as Manhattan’s charm.

Now you know that miracles are a matter of just effort, just perception, and maybe just magic.

It wasn’t a foul mood, it was the privilege that age had bought her, to dispense with the lie of politeness.

And so this is Um-Helat: a city whose inhabitants, simply, care for one another. That is a city’s purpose, they believe – not merely to generate revenue or energy or products, but to shelter and nurture the people who do these things.

But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally astronomical.

He has made his fellow citizens happier, and there is no finer virtue by the customs of this gentle, rich land.