N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms Quotes

You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

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

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?