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The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2) QUOTES

The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2) QUOTES

1 " They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

2 " This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

3 " You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

4 " Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

5 " But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

6 " We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

7 " If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

8 " Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises? "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

9 " He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping vegetables when the urge to stab himself through the wrist had struck. I slipped on the blood coming in, which annoyed me because that meant it was all over the kitchen floor. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

10 " Loneliness is a darkness of the soul "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

11 " Of course I was enough, because he loved me. That was the whole point. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

12 " I have decided to live,” he said quietly.
That, too, was obvious from the way he’d changed in the past year. I felt his gaze as he spoke, heavier than usual along my skin. He had been my friend, and now offered more. Was willing to try more. But I knew: he was not the sort of man who loved easily, or casually. If I wanted him, I would have all of him, and he wanted all of me. All or nothing; that was as fundamental to his nature as light itself.
I tried to joke. “It took you a year to decide that?”
“Ten, yes,” Shiny replied. “This last year was for you to decide. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

13 " Oree," she would say whenever I sought to prove my independence, "it's all right to need help. All of us have things we can't do alone. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

14 " Because I think I saw you, yesterday morning when I woke up. I think my eyes worked again, just for a moment, and you were the light I saw. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

15 " We began to call ourselves Maroneh, which meant "those who weep for Maro" in the common language we once spoke. We named our daughters for sorrow and our sons for rage; we debated whether there was any point in trying to rebuild our race. We thanked Itempas for saving even the handful of us who remained, and we hated the Arameri for making that prayer necessary. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

16 " Ya conoces la verdad sobre Itempas. Es el dios del calor y de la luz, que todos consideramos cosas agradables y delicadas. Yo antes también lo veía así. Pero el calor, si no se enfría, quema y la luz, si nada la eclipsa, puede lastimar hasta unos ojos ciegos como los míos. Tendría que haberme dado cuenta. Tendríamos que habernos dado cuenta todos. Él nunca fue lo que queríamos que fuese. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

17 " Las buenas intenciones carecen de sentido sin el deseo de llevarlas a la práctica "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

18 " Men praise parts of me endlessly. Always the parts mind you never the whole. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

19 " I liked that he lost control, dangerous though it was. I liked knowing I could give him that much pleasure. He was one of the younger godlings, but he had still lived millennia to my decades, and sometimes I worried that I wasn't enough for him. On nights like this, though, as he wept and groaned and strained against me, and scintillated like diamond when the moment struck, I knew that was a silly fear. Of course I was enough, because he loved me. That was the whole point. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)

20 " El brillo ha sido vuestra paz, vuestra prosperidad, no la de los demás. "

― N.K. Jemisin , The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance, #2)