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There is no logic to grief.
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There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.
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magic redistribution.
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For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.
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(Useful fact: mortals rarely look up.)
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Love is no inoculation against murder.
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The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.
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But this is what it means to be civilized - doing what her betters say she should, for the ostensible good of all.
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It was the oldest of tricks, to sow dissension between groups that had common interests. Good for deflecting attention from greater mischief, too.
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Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?
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Home is people," she says to Asael, softly. Asael blinks. "Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind." Heresmith
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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
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You pretended to hate him because you were a coward. But you eventually loved him, and he is a part of you now, because you have since grown brave.
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But if you stay, no part of this comm gets to decide that any part of this comm is expendable. No voting on who gets to be people.
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Wounds get better. What makes grief get better?" "Nothing. Time can ease it, but nothing ends it.
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And what do they even call this? It's not a threesome, or a love triangle. It's a two-and-a-half-some, an affection dihedron.
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Earth's flaming farts, it worked!
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True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young.
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But Schaffa is a grown-up, and grown-ups need their sleep; that's what her father always said whenever she or Chaga did something that woke him up.
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Didn't want to wait for death to come for you. Right. Stupid, stupid woman. Death was always here. Death is you.
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The body fades. A leader who lasts relies on more.
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But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.
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There are many of us now. Enough to be called a people in ourselves and not merely a mistake.
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Necessity is the only law, says stonelore. "Not
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(It is surprising how refreshing this feels. Being judged by what you do, and not what you are.) Lately
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The opposite of liking is not disliking, after all. The opposite of liking is apathy.
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After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being.
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Only learning oneself better, and understanding one's place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.
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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.
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Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.
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Urgency and despair don't get along well.
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keep the magma down, at least until it finds another, slower way to wend its way to the surface.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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Nothing to do but follow your crazy,
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Think you hate me because ... I'm someone you can hate. I'm here, I'm handy. But what you really hate is the world.
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You have seen so much purposeless suffering that at least being killed for a reason can be borne?
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You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.
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Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.
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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.
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The look on her face is one of horror, or perhaps sorrow so great that it might as well be horror. Past a certain point, it's all the same thing.
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We can never be gods, after all
but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin
but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. — N.K. Jemisin
But it is one thing to resolve to die, quite another to actually carry out that resolve in the midst of dying. Something
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Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.
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Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
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Peace is meaningless without freedom.
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Beware ground on loose rock. Beware hale strangers. Beware sudden silence. - Tablet One, "On Survival," verse three
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Desperation makes for poor stealth.
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There is nothing foolish about hope.
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Neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.
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No, I'm telling this wrong. After all a person is herself and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being. I am me and you.
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Someday, you must tell me what it's like there. Why all who come out of that place seem so very competent... and so very afraid.
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In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.
This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me. — N.K. Jemisin
This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me. — N.K. Jemisin
Men who served anyone could be trusted by no one.
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Necessity is the only law,
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His faith sustains him - and faith is so easy to break.
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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.
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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.
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We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.
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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.
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If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.
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It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.
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When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt. So
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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.
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It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as the enemy.
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The way I see it, a stranger feels like a stranger; a friend feels like a friend. Simple.
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beware love, especially the wrong man
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Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
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Stop this. It's undignified. — N.K. Jemisin
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Stop this. It's undignified. — 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
Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things. — N.K. Jemisin
It is not safe to hate the Arameri. Instead we hate their weapons, because weapons do not care.
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Grief sounds like a bad thing," I said, frowning. "Why don't you and Naha and Mama get rid of it?" "That would require removing love from existence.
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Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.
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