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Quotes from The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms — N. K. Jemisin

born 1972 United States

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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010)

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

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Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.

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But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.

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But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.
Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?

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It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy, it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

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There is no logic to grief.

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