The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)

by N.K. Jemisin

We can never be gods, after all—but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

“There’s truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.” “Only if one knows the knowledge is tainted in the first place.”

But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?