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“To those who’ve survived: Breathe. That’s it. Once more. Good. You’re good. Even if you’re not, you’re alive. That is a victory.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Then you say, “I want the world to be better.â€� I have never regretted more my inability to leap into the air and whoop for joy. Instead, I transit to you, with one hand proffered. “Then let’s go make it better.â€� You look amused. It’s you. It’s truly you. “Just like that?â€� “It might take some time.â€� “I don’t think I’m very patient.â€� But you take my hand. Don’t be patient. Don’t ever be. This is the way a new world begins. “Neither am I,â€� I say. “So let’s get to it.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Nassun frowns. “What’s genocide?â€� He smiles again, but it is sad. “If every orogene is hunted down and slain, and if the neck of every orogene infant born thereafter is wrung, and if every one like me who carries the trait is killed or effectively sterilized, and if even the notion that orogenes are human is denied â€� that would be genocide. Killing a people, down to the very idea of them as a people.â€� “Oh.â€� Nassun feels queasy again, inexplicably. “But that’s …â€� Schaffa inclines his head, acknowledging her unspoken But that’s what’s been happening”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“She is such a good child, at her core. Don't be angry with her. She can only make choices within the limited set of her experiences, and it isn't her fault that so many of those experiences have been terrible. Marvel, instead, at how easily she loves, how thoroughly. Love enough to change the world! She learned how to love like this from somewhere.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky