The City Born Great Quotes

“The world can’t hurt you if you just ignore everything that’s wrong with it; well, not until it kills you anyway.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great

“cities really are different. They make a weight on the world, a tear in the fabric of reality, like . . . like black holes, maybe.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great

“But it is too late. The tether is cut and we are here. We become! We stand, whole and hale and independent, and our legs don’t even wobble. We got this. Don’t sleep on the city that never sleeps, son, and don’t fucking bring your squamous eldritch bullshit here.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great

“I live the city. It thrives and it is mine. I am its worthy avatar, and together? We will never be afraid again.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great

“The world can’t hurt you if you just ignore everything that’s wrong with it. Well, not until it kills you anyway.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great

“Miracles exist, Ralph Ellison was right, any NYPD you can walk away from, hallelujah.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City Born Great