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1. "We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them." ~ N.K. Jemisin
2. "Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid." ~ N.K. Jemisin
3. "It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease." ~ N.K. Jemisin
4. "True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict." ~ N.K. Jemisin
5. "If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation." ~ N.K. Jemisin
6. "Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright." ~ N.K. Jemisin
7. "So there was love, once. More than love. And now there is more than hate. Mortals have no words for what we gods feel. Gods have no words for such things. But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always love left, underneath. Horrible, isn't it?" ~ N.K. Jemisin
8. "This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot." ~ N.K. Jemisin
9. "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." ~ N.K. Jemisin
10. "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?" ~ N.K. Jemisin
11. "There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully." ~ N.K. Jemisin
12. "Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough." ~ N.K. Jemisin
13. "You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I don't you like you, either." ~ N.K. Jemisin
14. "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." ~ N.K. Jemisin
15. "The Nightlord cannot be controlled, child. He can only be unleashed. And you asked him not to kill." ~ N.K. Jemisin
16. "I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god wasn't something I had considered, but it did not surprise me. A mortal man's strength had its limits. He spent himself and slept. He could be a good lover, but even his best skills were only guesswork - for every caress that sent a woman's head into the clouds, he might try ten that brought her back to earth." ~ N.K. Jemisin
17. "It had not been all suffering and horror. Life is never only one thing." ~ N.K. Jemisin
18. "The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within." ~ N.K. Jemisin
19. "(This is not a digression.)" ~ N.K. Jemisin
20. "I have decided to live," he said quietly.That, too, was obvious from the way he'd changed in the past year. I felt his gaze as he spoke, heavier than usual along my skin. He had been my friend, and now offered more. Was willing to try more. But I knew: he was not the sort of man who loved easily, or casually. If I wanted him, I would have all of him, and he wanted all of me. All or nothing; that was as fundamental to his nature as light itself.I tried to joke. "It took you a year to decide that?""Ten, yes," Shiny replied. "This last year was for you to decide." ~ N.K. Jemisin
21. "I would savor every moment of my life that remained, suck its marrow, crunch its bones. And when the end came... well, I would not be alone. That was a precious and holy thing." ~ N.K. Jemisin
22. "Because I think I saw you, yesterday morning when I woke up. I think my eyes worked again, just for a moment, and you were the light I saw." ~ N.K. Jemisin
23. "La soledad es la oscuridad del alma" ~ N.K. Jemisin
24. "... la luz depende de la presencia de otras luces. Si las quitas, el resultado es la oscuridad. Pero lo contrario no es cierto: si eliminas la oscuridad, el resultado es solo más oscuridad. La oscuridad puede existir por si sola. La luz no." ~ N.K. Jemisin
25. "Eres insignificante. Una entre millones, ni especial ni única. Yo no pedí esta ignominia y me sentí ofendida por la comparación.Muy bien. A mí tampoco me gustas." ~ N.K. Jemisin
26. "We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what's been taken from us– we all dream." ~ N.K. Jemisin
27. "Estoy cansada de ser lo que todos los demás han hecho de mí. Quiero ser yo misma." ~ N.K. Jemisin
28. "Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?" ~ N.K. Jemisin
29. "I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore.I must try to remember." ~ N.K. Jemisin
30. "It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre." ~ N.K. Jemisin
31. "Of course I was enough, because he loved me. That was the whole point." ~ N.K. Jemisin
32. "Separarse de la tierra y contemplarla desde arriba como los dioses es una blasfemia. No podemos ser dioses... pero podemos llegar a ser menos que humanos con aterradora facilidad." ~ N.K. Jemisin
33. "Las buenas intenciones carecen de sentido sin el deseo de llevarlas a la práctica" ~ N.K. Jemisin
34. "beware love, especially the wrong man" ~ N.K. Jemisin
35. "We began to call ourselves Maroneh, which meant "those who weep for Maro" in the common language we once spoke. We named our daughters for sorrow and our sons for rage; we debated whether there was any point in trying to rebuild our race. We thanked Itempas for saving even the handful of us who remained, and we hated the Arameri for making that prayer necessary." ~ N.K. Jemisin
36. "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." ~ N.K. Jemisin
37. "Ya conoces la verdad sobre Itempas. Es el dios del calor y de la luz, que todos consideramos cosas agradables y delicadas. Yo antes también lo veía así. Pero el calor, si no se enfría, quema y la luz, si nada la eclipsa, puede lastimar hasta unos ojos ciegos como los míos. Tendría que haberme dado cuenta. Tendríamos que habernos dado cuenta todos. Él nunca fue lo que queríamos que fuese." ~ N.K. Jemisin
38. "Está muy bien decir que el mundo se rige por los valores de la razón, la compasión y la justicia, pero si nada de lo que hay en realidad refleja esas palabras, carecen de sentido." ~ N.K. Jemisin
39. "El brillo ha sido vuestra paz, vuestra prosperidad, no la de los demás." ~ N.K. Jemisin
40. "-El cambio existe -dije en medio de un bostezo-.Tenemos que aceptarlo.-No -replicó él-. No tenemos por qué. Yo nunca lo hice. Oree, yo soy la luz permanente que mantiene a raya la hirviente oscuridad. La roca inamovible que el río tiene que rodear. Puede que no te guste yo. Pero sin mi influencia, este reino sería la anarquía, el caos. Un infierno más allá de la imaginación de los mortales." ~ N.K. Jemisin
41. "-Puede que haya un modo de que escapemos de este lugar -dijo Lúmino al día siguiente.(...)-¿Cómo? -pregunté, pero entonces se me ocurrió una idea-. Tu magia. la recuperas cuando me proteges.-Sí.(...)-Pero ahora estoy en peligro... Lo estoy desde que me secuestraron los Luces. -Y no había ni el menor destello de magia en él.-Puede que sea una cuestión de medida. O puede que haga falta una amenaza física.Suspiré. Estaba deseando tener esperanzas.-Muchos "puede" son ésos. Supongo que nadie tuvo la delicadeza de darte unas instrucciones sobre cómo... funcionas ahora, ¿verdad?-No.-¿Pues qué propones, entonces? ¿Ataco a Serymn, y cuando me responda, vuelas la casa por los aires y nos matas a todos?Hubo un momento de pausa. Creo que mi sarcasmo lo molestaba.-En esencia, sí. Pero no sería muy lógico que te matara a ti, así que limitaré la cantidad de fuerza que utilice.-Agradezco tu consideración, Lúmino, en serio." ~ N.K. Jemisin
42. "Quieres controlar tu muerte porque no puedes controlar tu vida." ~ N.K. Jemisin
43. "I considered several lies — then decided the truth was so outrageous that she might believe it more readily. "I'm a godling, sent by an organization of godlings based in Shadow. We think you might be trying to destroy the world. Could you, perhaps, stop?" ~ N.K. Jemisin
44. "An experiment," she said ... "I am leaving Nahadoth and Itempas alone together for a while. If the universe starts coming apart again, I'll know I made a mistake." ~ N.K. Jemisin
45. "Still ... I was glad for her naïveté. That was always the nicest thing about having a newborn god around. They were willing to try things the rest of us were too jaded to even consider." ~ N.K. Jemisin
46. "It was simply that I knew, or had known, precisely why he did not love all his children equally. Differentiation, variation, appreciation of the unique: this was part of what he was. His children were not the same, so his feelings toward each were not the same. He loved us all, but differently. And because he did this, because he did not pretend that love was fair or equal, mortals could mate for an afternoon or for the rest of their lives. Mothers could tell their twins or triplets apart. Children could have crushes and outgrow them; elders could remain devoted to their spouses long after beauty had gone. The mortal heart was fickle. Naha made it so. And because of this, they were free to love as they wished, and not solely by the dictates of instinct or power or tradition." ~ N.K. Jemisin
47. "The younger man stepped away from the table and came toward me, his whole posture radiating menace. Every Darre woman is taught to deal with such behavior from men. It is an animal trick that they use, like dogs ruffling their fur and growling. Only rarely is there an actual threat behind it, and a woman's strength lies in discerning when the threat is real and when it is just hair and noise." ~ N.K. Jemisin
48. "J. R. R. Tolkien, the near-universally-hailed father of modern epic fantasy, crafted his magnum opus The Lord of the Rings to explore the forces of creation as he saw them: God and country, race and class, journeying to war and returning home. I've heard it said that he was trying to create some kind of original British mythology using the structure of other cultures' myths, and maybe that was true. I don't know. What I see, when I read his work, is a man trying desperately to dream.Dreaming is impossible without myths. If we don't have enough myths of our own, we'll latch onto those of others — even if those myths make us believe terrible or false things about ourselves. Tolkien understood this, I think because it's human nature. Call it the superego, call it common sense, call it pragmatism, call it learned helplessness, but the mind craves boundaries. Depending on the myths we believe in, those boundaries can be magnificently vast, or crushingly tight." ~ N.K. Jemisin
49. "Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh--and love does not mandate forgiveness." ~ N.K. Jemisin
50. "Determination could easily become obsession." ~ N.K. Jemisin
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