The Dreamblood Duology Quotes

“I don’t doubt your love,” she said. “You are a man made for love, I think. Your eyes make me want to die, there’s so much love in them. But it isn’t real. Real love lasts years. It causes pain, and endures through it.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“Women are goddesses, like unto Hananja Herself. They birth and shape the dreamers of the world. Love and fear them. (Wisdom)”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“The servant girl presented her with slivers of spicy fowl roasted in cumin and jife nuts; fluffy barley cakes stuffed with yam, currants, and hekeh seeds; gingered lamb and tamban patties in rich gravy; and more.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“I want every moment of my life, pretty man, the painful and the sweet alike. Until the very end. If these are all the memories I get for eternity, I want to take as many of them with me as I can.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“How I miss the Hetawa baths! The gods put hot water and fragrant oil in this world for a reason, I tell you.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“A people shall be judged civilized by how the least among them are succored.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“He kept his voice mild, but only a fool would have mistaken his calm for a lack of anger.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“That man positively cherishes a grudge.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“Hendet glanced at her and laughed softly. It did not feel malicious. Just pitying, which was worse.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“There is nothing to fear in nightmares, so long as you control them. (Wisdom)”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“One’s sense of what was normal, acceptable, became distorted by proximity to wrongness; entire nations had succumbed this way, first to decadence, then collapse.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“Most visions were harmless. But like pain with the body, unpleasant visions served as a warning for the mind, indicating imbalance or injury.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“A heavy burden, this unwanted reason to live. Yet in his innermost heart, he could not lie to himself: it was a relief, as well.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology

“Holiest mistress of comfort and peace…”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Dreamblood Duology