“ In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me. N.K. Jemisin
“ Myths tell us what those like us have done, can do, should do. Without myths to lead the way, we hesitate to leap forward. Listen to the wrong myths, and we might even go back a few steps. N.K. Jemisin
“ So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we gods feel. Gods have no words for such things. But love like that doesn't just disappear, do… N.K. Jemisin
“ The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man. N.K. Jemisin
“ Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she's wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the wo… N.K. Jemisin
“ The children of the Fulcrum are all different: different ages, different colors, different shapes. Some speak Sanze-mat with different accents, having originated from different parts of the world. One… N.K. Jemisin
“ Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another mundane. N.K. Jemisin
“ She has seen him fight his own brutal nature, and the Earth itself, in order to be the parent she needs. He has helped her learn to love herself for what she is. N.K. Jemisin
“ He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping vegetables when the urge to stab himself through the wrist had struck.… N.K. Jemisin
“ It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our… N.K. Jemisin
“ Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? N.K. Jemisin
“ J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and c… N.K. Jemisin
“ Once upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aOnce upon a time there was aStop this. It's undignified. N.K. Jemisin
“ I definitely haven’t been in the best place while working on this book, but I can say this much: Where there is pain in this book, it is real pain; where there is anger, it is real anger; where there… N.K. Jemisin
“ If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation. N.K. Jemisin
“ If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem. N.K. Jemisin
