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N. K. Jemisin Quotes

born 1972 United States

Nora Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger.

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It is surprising how refreshing this feels. Being judged by what you do, and not what you are.

The Obelisk Gate (2016)

You’re abbreviating heavily, not lying. That’s what you tell yourself.

The Obelisk Gate (2016)

Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

Honor in safety, survival under threat. Necessity is the only law.

The Stone Sky (2017)

It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as the enemy.

The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

Well. Adolescence is all about making mistakes.

The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

Otherwise it was quiet—that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.

The Broken Kingdoms (2010)

Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.

The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

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.

The Stone Sky (2017)

At least I’m done with adolescence. Never could stand it; if I don’t want to kill someone, I want to have sex with them.

The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

I understand that mutual dissatisfaction is a factor in their collaboration. I imagine it isn’t a far step from mutual goals to mutual respect, and from there to love.

The Broken Kingdoms (2010)

I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.

The Broken Kingdoms (2010)

They should have known better. The probability of a train derailment was infinitesimal. That meant it was only a matter of time.

When people questioned this, the priests simply said, The world has changed. We must change with it.
You can imagine how well that went over.

The Broken Kingdoms (2010)

Magic is merely communication, after all.
Communication, and conduits.

The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.

The Broken Kingdoms (2010)

They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.

The Broken Kingdoms (2010)

Peace is meaningless without freedom.

The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too.

The Kingdom of Gods (2011)

Nassun gasps. “That’s horrible!
I don’t bother to explain that just because something is horrible does not make it any less true.

The Stone Sky (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: N. K. Jemisin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.