Gibryon

“for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“What's this?'
'That's a bannock, dear,' said Mrs Piper.
'Scone,' corrected Professor Lovell.
'It's properly a bannock-'
'The scones are the pieces,' said Professor Lovell. 'The bannock is the entire cake.'
'Now look here, this is a bannock, and all the itty pieces are bannocks as well. Scones are those dry, crumbly things you English love to shove in your mouths-'
'I assume you're excepting your own scones, Mrs Piper. No one in their right mind would accuse those of being dry.'
Mrs Piper did not succumb to flattery. 'It's a bannock. They're bannocks. My grandmother called them bannocks, my mother called them bannocks, so bannocks they are.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Say nothing to me of innocent bystanders, unearned suffering, heartless vengeance. When a comm builds atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever was stupid enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. 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.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky