N. K. Jemisin Short Quotes

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

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Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?

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

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There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

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

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Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

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

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

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But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.

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If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

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We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.

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Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

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Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

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And when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

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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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I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

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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.

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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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And in that sliver of time, I felt the power around me coalesce, malice-hard and sharp as crystal. That this analogy occurred to me should have been a warning.

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The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

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