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N. K. Jemisin Quotes (1972-)
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About N. K. Jemisin
Nora Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger.
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“Peace is meaningless without freedom.”
“Well. Adolescence is all about making mistakes.”
“Unconditional love: childhood’s greatest magic.”
“It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.”
“If they will not love me, fear is an acceptable substitute.”
“Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.”
“Unreasoning optimism is a fundamental element of childishness.”
“There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.”
“Good intentions are pointless without the will to implement them.”
“Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.”
“Magic is merely communication, after all.
Communication, and conduits.”
Communication, and conduits.”
“You’re abbreviating heavily, not lying. That’s what you tell yourself.”
“I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.”
“I’d come down sick. (I had. It was called adolescence, an evil, evil disease.)”
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N. K. Jemisin on Regret
“I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless.”
N. K. Jemisin on Prayer
N. K. Jemisin on Change
N. K. Jemisin on Probability
“They should have known better. The probability of a train derailment was infinitesimal. That meant it was only a matter of time.”
N. K. Jemisin on Priest
“I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.”
N. K. Jemisin on Magic (supernatural)
“All energy is the same, through its different states and names. Movement creates heat which is also light that waves like sound which tightens or loosens the atomic bonds of crystal as they hum with strong and weak forces. In mirroring resonance with all of this is magic, the radiant emission of life and death.”
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N. K. Jemisin on Tad Williams
“(The book that…kept me up way too late:) Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams, which starts like a children’s story and then becomes something Very Dark.”
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Kathleen Alcalá on N. K. Jemisin
“More recent writers who have knocked me dead include Roberto Bolaño, Ruth Ozeki, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Isabel Quintero and N. K. Jemison.”
About N. K. Jemisin
Nora Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger.