KRISTEN STUART

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Determination could easily become obsession.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don’t refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it’s so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren’t especially interested in viewing them as people — just as objects representing their culture.”
― N.K. Jemisin

“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky