Thamalsha Jay

“You're very optimistic for a possible serial killer. I like that about you.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“He’s waiting for her to say it out loud and violate the unspoken contract that covers white people who are doing everything short of tossing around the n-word in public.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“But I got better. I had some friends slap sense into me, and I listened when they did.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“Only the bodegas stand open, sentinels of The City That Never Sleeps And Occasionally Needs Milk At Two A.M.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became