N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
7 quotes
"For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question."
"Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind."
"The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more."
"We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us."
"Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?"
"Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because she's wearing smoky gray eyeshadow and dark eyeliner to accentuate them further. Makeup, while the world is ending."
"Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree."