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They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.N.K. Jemisin
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This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.N.K. Jemisin
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You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you.N.K. Jemisin
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Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.N.K. Jemisin
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But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates.N.K. Jemisin
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We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.N.K. Jemisin
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If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.N.K. Jemisin
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Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?N.K. Jemisin
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He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping vegetables when the urge to stab himself through the wrist had struck. I slipped on the blood coming in, which annoyed me because that meant it was all over the kitchen floor.N.K. Jemisin