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

— N. K. Jemisin, book The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), Chapter 12 (p. 144)

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