Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

N.K. Jemisin

…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.

Black

Stars

Tears

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.

Crystals

Should Have

Warning

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

Faces

Should

World

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?

Doe

Hate

Powerful

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

Too Much

Way

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

Mouths

Nerves

Outlets

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.

Distance

People

Thinking

Determination could easily become obsession.

Determination

Obsession

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

Blind

Panic

Reason

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

Employment

Funny Things

Paid

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Adventure

Annihilation

Appreciate

Appreciate Beauty

Black

Blind

Blood

Boring

Broken

Chance

Character

Children

Clouds

Crystals

Darkness

Determination

Different

Distance

Doe

Done

Dream

Ease

Employment

Evil

Faces

Foolish

Forever

Funny Things

Glowing

Grandmother

Grief

Hate

Hatred

Heart

Home

Ifs

Immortality

Interesting

Killers

Lessons

Light

Like You

Littles

Logic

Loneliness

Lonely

Looks

Lucky

Lying

Mean

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Quotes by N.K. Jemisin

N.K. Jemisin

…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.

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.

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

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?

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

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

Determination could easily become obsession.

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

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

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