N.K.Jemisin

People need to believe there’s more to the world than there is.”

“You want me to catch the fucking Moon?”

In love, then, we shall seek understanding.

“You serve a higher purpose, little one. Not any single man’s desire—not even mine. You were not made for such petty things.”

“To repair something long broken, little one, and settle a feud whose origins lie so far in our past that most of us have forgotten how it began. Or that the feud continues.”

she turns Eitz to stone.

But in the moment, in the pent seconds after this happens, as Nassun writhes and tries to drag her mind back from falling, falling upward through watery blue light,

To those who have no choice but to prepare their children for the battlefield

It gives him power, but what good is power if it comes on a spiked leash?

Or maybe you can just call it Alabaster.

It’s five thirty.