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N.K. Jemisin Biography

Nora K. Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American speculative fiction writer. Her fiction explores a wide variety of themes, including cultural conflict and oppression. She has won several awards for her work, including the Locus and the Hugo awards.

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The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

Grandmother, Men, Lessons, Love, Nightlord, Man

Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Once upon a time there was a Stop this. It's undignified.

Once Upon A Time, Stop, Time, Undignified

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.

Darkness, Exist, Light, Mean, Presence

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.

Blood, Dead, Floor, Home, Struck, Vegetables

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

Annihilation, Bad, Littles, Wipe

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.

Shadow, Nightmare, Never Forget, Forget, Nightmares, Elsewhere

Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?

Alone, Faces, Should, Woman, World

. . . and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

Black, Head, See, Stars, Tears

There is nothing foolish about hope.

Foolish, Nothing, Hope

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

Morning, Glowing, Sunrise, God, Mornings

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.

Call, Distance, People, Refer, Thinking, Understand

Determination could easily become obsession.

Become, Determination, Easily, Obsession

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?

Powerful, Hate, Doe, Horrible, Underneath

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

Ease, Frightening, Gods, Political, Politics

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

Children, Glorious, Mom, Mother, Universe, Way

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

Betrayed, Different, Hatred, Outright, Sound

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.

Analogies, Felt, Sharp, Should Have, Time, Warning

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!',. . . chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

Cry, Mouths, Political, Racism, Words

The Cloud Roads has wildly original worldbuilding, diverse and engaging characters, and a thrilling adventure plot. It's that rarest of fantasies: fresh and surprising, with a story that doesn't go where ten thousand others have gone before. I can't wait for my next chance to visit the Three Worlds!

Character, Adventure, Clouds, Visit, Fresh, Original

I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me," I said. "I want to be myself. " "Don't be a child. " I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. "What?" "You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining.

Children, Tired, Done, Looked, Like

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