“There was no point in making myself suffer unnecessarily. As a mortal, there would be pain enough in my life, whether I sought it out or not.”

—  N. K. Jemisin , book The Kingdom of Gods

Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 5 (p. 119)

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