Emma

“But human beings, too, are ephemeral things in the planetary scale. The number of things that they do not notice are literally astronomical.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“There passes a time of happiness in your life, which I will not describe to you. It is unimportant. Perhaps you think it wrong that I dwell so much on the horrors, the pain, but pain is what shapes us, after all. We are creatures born of heat and pressure and grinding, ceaseless movement. To be still is to be… not alive.

But what is important is that you know it was not all terrible. There was peace in long stretches, between each crisis. A chance to cool and solidify before the grind resumed.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Then she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“I will tear the whole world apart if they ever hurt us again.'' But we would still be hurt, she thinks.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season