“Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.”

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

Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), Chapter 9 (p. 103)

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