Kyra Bea

“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“I think,” Hoa says slowly, “that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“I've become just like the white boys at middle-school dances: the boys by the wall, earthbound boys, wing-severed boys with stiff bodies. There is nothing behind the door in my chest that should uncage the kind of feminine softness I should have, the kind you told me would settle into my chest and my hips. It never did.”
― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

“People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became