Quotes from bookThe Kingdom of Gods
The debut series from the double Hugo Award-winning N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season For two thousand years the Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods that created mortalkind. Now the gods are free, and the Arameri's ruthless grip is slipping. Yet they are all that stands between peace and world-spanning, unending war. Shahar, last scion of the family, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. Yet her duty as Arameri heir is to uphold the family's interests, even if that means using and destroying everyone she cares for. As long-suppressed rage and terrible new magics consume the world, the Maelstrom - which even gods fear - is summoned forth. Shahar and Sieh: mortal and god, lovers and enemies. Can they stand together against the chaos that threatens the kingdom of gods? The Inheritance Trilogy begins with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, continues in The Broken Kingdoms and concludes in The Kingdom of Gods.
“Peace is meaningless without freedom.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 20 (p. 514)
“Those with power would always find some way to exert it over those who didn’t.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 19 (p. 494)
“Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 16 (p. 407)
“If they will not love me, fear is an acceptable substitute.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 13 (p. 331)
“Magic is merely communication, after all.
Communication, and conduits.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 13 (p. 325)
“Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 12 (p. 308)
“Unreasoning optimism is a fundamental element of childishness.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 10 (p. 237)
“Well. Adolescence is all about making mistakes.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 9 (p. 200)
“Unconditional love: childhood’s greatest magic.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 35)
“When things are bad, change is good, right? Change means things will get better.”
N. K. Jemisin book The Kingdom of Gods
Source: The Kingdom of Gods (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 19)
