Kr Lick Sne N K Pohor Quotes

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress. ~ N.K. Jemisin

You know the end to this. Don't you? How could you be here listening to this tale if you didn't? But sometimes it is the how of a thing, not just the endgame, that matters most. ~ N.K. Jemisin

The grief does not feel like what you feel about Uche, or Corundum, or Innon; those are rents in your soul that still seep blood. The loss of Alabaster is simply... a thinning of who you are. ~ N.K. Jemisin

There are many of us now. Enough to be called a people in ourselves and not merely a mistake. ~ N.K. Jemisin

I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Someday, you must tell me what it's like there. Why all who come out of that place seem so very competent... and so very afraid. ~ N.K. Jemisin

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– we all dream. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope. ~ N.K. Jemisin

The Fulcrum is not the first institution to have learned an eternal truth of humankind: No need for guards when you can convince people to collaborate in their own internment. ~ N.K. Jemisin

keep the magma down, at least until it finds another, slower way to wend its way to the surface. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Home isn't where the heart is. It's wherever the wind feels right. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Do you try to pick up all the mortal girls you almost kill?"
"Just the ones who don't scream and run," he said. And then he startled me further by touching my face, just under one eye. I tensed just a little, as I always did when someone noticed my eyes. Bracing myself for the if only.
But there was no revulsion in his gaze and nothing but fascination in his touch. "And the ones with pretty eyes," he added. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Never expect everyone to understand the decisions you make because no matter how good it is, it will sound crazy to someone. ~ N.K.David

There's something almost magical dancing around us, like I'm inside a cloud nebula and we're creating our own star. I think he feels it too. Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but I see twinkling in his eyes, like he's looking at something special, like the vast, sparkling sky that hosts planets and stars.
But he's just looking at me. ~ N.K. Smith

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?
Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; Death is the fifth and master of all. ~ N.K. Jemisin

I would savor every moment of my life that remained, suck its marrow, crunch its bones. And when the end came ... well, I would not be alone. That was a precious and holy thing. ~ N.K. Jemisin

I did not mean to break that planet it was just in the way when I came into being and I fixed it and I said I was sorry and the planet said OK so since I'm supposed to learn from stuff like that I will tell you don't break planets, especially the ones with living things on them, or at least fix them if you do break them. Also, don't go in black holes, no matter how much they look like cute little Nahas. They are not cute! They are actually very bitey and kind of mean. Also just OK I do not want to talk about any of this anymore. ~ 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 class, journeying to war and returning home. I've heard it said that he was trying to create some kind of original British mythology using the structure of other cultures' myths, and maybe that was true. I don't know. What I see, when I read his work, is a man trying desperately to dream.
Dreaming is impossible without myths. If we don't have enough myths of our own, we'll latch onto those of others - even if those myths make us believe terrible or false things about ourselves. Tolkien understood this, I think because it's human nature. Call it the superego, call it common sense, call it pragmatism, call it learned helplessness, but the mind craves boundaries. Depending on the myths we believe in, those boundaries can be magnificently vast, or crushingly tight. ~ N.K. Jemisin

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

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur. ~ N.K. Jemisin

This epic is a humble appeal to this great continent, Africa: May we reclaim our rich and resplendent narrative; our foundation, our voice, our magnitude, our honour, our pride, our wisdom, our traditions, our past, our exceptional uniqueness, our failings, our triumphs and finally when all is said and done, our glory. ~ N.K. Read

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting. ~ N.K. Jemisin

You know how these things are supposed to work, right? The good-looking popular guy suddenly shows interest in the mousy girl from the country. Everyone hates her for it, but she starts to gain confidence in herself. Then the guy betrays her and regrets it. It's awful, but afterward she 'finds herself,' realizes she doesn't need him, and maybe there's some other stuff that happens" - he waggles his fingers in the air - "and finally she turns into the most beautiful girl ever because she likes herself. But it won't work at all if you don't stammer and blush and pretend you don't like me." She's ~ N.K. Jemisin

Choose how your nature shapes you. Embrace it. Find the strength in it. ~ N.K. Jemisin

It would be cruel to break that hope before it fades on its own. ~ N.K. Jemisin

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid. ~ N.K. Jemisin

We aren't human."
"Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us. ~ N.K. Jemisin

This is why she hates Alabaster: not because he is more powerful, not even because he is crazy, but because he refuses to allow her any of the polite fictions and unspoken truths that have kept her comfortable, and safe, for years. ~ N.K. Jemisin

He has come to seduce the god of seduction, and oh, has he come prepared. ~ N.K. Jemisin

Just because they want to kill her is no reason to forget her manners. ~ N.K. Jemisin

No voting on who gets to be people. ~ N.K. Jemisin

We will never be anything but strange to them.
I answer in angry basso push-wave throbs. This is not about them. ~ N.K. Jemisin

The look on her face is one of horror, or perhaps sorrow so great that it might as well be horror. Past a certain point, it's all the same thing. ~ N.K. Jemisin

A commandment," the man says, spreading his arms, "is set in stone." Imagine that his face aches from smiling. He's been smiling for hours: teeth clenched, lips drawn back, eyes crinkled so the crow's feet show. There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate ~ N.K. Jemisin

(This is not a digression.) ~ N.K. Jemisin

Come, then, City That Never Sleeps. Let me show you what lurks in the empty spaces where nightmares dare not tread. ~ N.K. Jemisin

How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending. ~ N.K. Jemisin

When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt. So ~ N.K. Jemisin

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too. ~ N.K. Jemisin