Jemisin Books Quotes & Sayings

I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters,
but I always seem to lay us out bare.

Sorry for the poems. — Unknown

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke. — Will Rogers

Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can. — Warren Spector

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate. — N.K. Jemisin

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy. — Anthony Powell

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come. — Franz Schubert

Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats. — Arlene Francis

with a firm hand under my chin. I stay there, my — J. Kenner

Every bad thing that's happened to me has defined me, has shaped, has moulded me. — Natalia Kills

But hoping you never saw someone again is a damn sight different from wishing them dead. — Rob Thurman

You've read accounts of attempts by the Sixth University at Arcara to capture a stone eater for study, two Seasons back. The result was the Seventh University at Dibars, which got built only after they dug enough books out of the rubble of Sixth. — N.K. Jemisin