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

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











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

More N. K. Jemisin quotes
"Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?
"We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.
"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.
"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, o...
"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, a...
"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 thi...
"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 so...
"It was said that the gods favored fools because they were entertaining to watch.