Quotes by N.k. Jemisin - Page 1

There is no logic to grief.
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Grief
Logic
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There is nothing foolish about hope.
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Loneliness is a darkness of the soul
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Darkness
Loneliness
Soul
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Determination could easily become obsession.
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Determination
Obsession
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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.
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Appreciate
Appreciate Beauty
Evil
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Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?
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Faces
Should
World
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There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
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Children
Mother
Warrior
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There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.
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Ifs
Tainted
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Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.
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Blind
Panic
Reason
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Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
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Different
Hatred
Sound
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Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.
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Employment
Funny Things
Paid
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But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.
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Too Much
Way
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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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Mouths
Nerves
Outlets
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We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.
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Politics
Ease
Political
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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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Annihilation
Littles
Wipe
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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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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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Morning
Glowing
Sunrise
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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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Black
Stars
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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Boring
Immortality
Interesting
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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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Broken
Heart
Who I Am
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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.
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Mouths
Political
Racism
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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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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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Men
Grandmother
Lessons
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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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Forever
Lonely
Thinking
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You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.
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Chance
Lucky
Powerful
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But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?
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Doe
Hate
Powerful
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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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Crystals
Should Have
Warning
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You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either.
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Like You
Special
Unique
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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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Never Forget
Nightmare
Shadow
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In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.
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Mom
Children
Mother
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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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Nature
Ease
Looks
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This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.
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Darkness
Light
Mean
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So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream.
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Dream
Taken
Writing
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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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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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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
Done
Tired
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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 homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.
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Home
Men
Children
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Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.
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Distance
People
Thinking
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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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Men
Clouds
Lying
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