The Stone Sky
N.K. Jemisin
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”
“But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
“They’re afraid because we exist, she says. There’s nothing we did to provoke their fear, other than exist. There’s nothing we can do to earn their approval, except stop existing – so we can either die like they want, or laugh at their cowardice and go on with our lives.”
“Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.”
“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?”
“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.”
“Don’t be patient. Don’t ever be. This is the way a new world begins.”
“The Fulcrum is not the first institution to have learned an eternal truth of humankind: No need for guards when you can convince people to collaborate in their own internment.”
“But breathing doesn’t always mean living, and maybe… maybe genocide doesn’t always leave bodies.”
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Book Keywords:
past, love, incarceration, internment, oppression, fantasy, future, imprisonment
