Determination could easily become obsession.

— N.K. Jemisin

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

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

— N.K. Jemisin

Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.

— N.K. Jemisin

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

— N.K. Jemisin

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

— N.K. Jemisin

He has come to seduce the god of seduction, and oh, has he come prepared.

— N.K. Jemisin

Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she's wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the world is ending.

— N.K. Jemisin

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.

— N.K. Jemisin

Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.

— N.K. Jemisin