N.K. Jemisin Quotes - Page 2

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• The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!

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  Adventure, Character, Clouds

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

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  Appreciate Beauty, Appreciate, Evil

  "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms". Book by N. K. Jemisin, Orbit Books, Chapter 7, p. 75, 2010.

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• I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me," I said. "I want to be myself." "Don't be a child." I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. "What?" "You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining.

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  Children, Tired, Done

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• 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. I slipped on the blood coming in, which annoyed me because that meant it was all over the kitchen floor.

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  Home, Blood, Vegetables

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• You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

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  Done, Tire, Whining

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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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  Lonely, Thinking, Forever

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Broken Kingdoms”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Grandmother, Men, Lessons

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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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  Morning, Glowing, Sunrise

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

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  Funny Things, Employment, Paid

  N. K. Jemisin (2011). “The Kingdom Of Gods”, p.158, Hachette UK

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

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  Panic, Blind, Reason

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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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  Killers, Worship

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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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  Should Have, Warning, Crystals

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.161, Hachette UK

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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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  Shadow, Nightmare, Never Forget

  N. K. Jemisin (2012). “The Killing Moon: Dreamblood:”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth.

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  Lying, Men, Clouds

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• Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

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  Loneliness, Soul, Darkness

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Broken Kingdoms”, p.119, Hachette UK

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