Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by N.K. Jemisin

Quote by N.K. Jemisin

“All of that stuff is true. All the other worlds that human beings believe in, via group myths or spiritual visitations or even imaginations if they're vivid enough, they exist. Imagining a world creates it, if it isn't already there. That's the great secret of existence: it's supersensitive to thought. Decisions, wishes, lies—that's all you need to create a new universe. Every human being on this planet spins off thousands between birth and death, although there's something about the way our minds work that keeps us from noticing. In every moment, we're continually moving in multiple dimensions—we think we're sitting still, but we're actually falling from one universe to the next to the next, so fast that it all blends together like . . . like animation. Except there's a lot more than just images flipping past.”

Quote by N.K. Jemisin

Book:The City We Became
Create image

Work

The City We Became

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

N.K. Jemisin
N.K. Jemisin

N.K. Jemisin is an American science fiction writer born in September 1972. Her works are known for their unique world-building, profound character development, and rich imagination. Jemisin gained widespread acclaim with her 'Inkwood' series, which includes 'The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms', 'The Broken Kingdoms', and 'The Kingdom of the Gods', with 'The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms' winning the Hugo Award in 2011. more

You May Also Like

“Dinin esasen ağırlıklı olarak korkuya dayalı olduğunu düşünüyorum. Bu kısmen bilinmeyene duyulan korkudur, kısmen de, tüm dertlerinizde ve sürtüşmelerinizde yanınızda duracak bir ağabeyinizin olduğunu hissetmeniz isteğidir. Korku bütün bunların temelidir; bilinmeyenden duyulan korku, yenilgi korkusu, ölüm korkusu. Korku, zalimliğin anasıdır, o yüzden din ile zalimliğin el ele gitmesi hiç garip değil. Bunun nedeni, bu iki şeyin temelinde korku olması.”

20201 Baskı Say Yayınları
Book:Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
Create image

“I stepped somewhat apprehensively into 2020, unaware of what was to happen, of course, thinking little about the newly-emerged coronavirus, but knowing myself to be at a tipping point in my life. I had come so very far over the years, the decades, from my birthplace in the United Kingdom, to Thailand, Japan and then back to Thailand to arrive at an age—how had I clocked up so many turns under the sun?—at which most people ask for nothing more than comfort, security and love, or at least loving kindness. Instead, I was slowly extricating myself, physically and emotionally, from a marriage that had, over the course of more than a decade, slowly, almost imperceptibly, deteriorated from complacency to conflict, from apathy to antagonism, from diversity to divergence as our respective outlooks on life first shifted and then conflicted. Instrumental in exacerbating this had been my decision to travel as and where I could after witnessing my mother’s devastating and terminal descent into dementia. For reasons which even now I cannot recall with any accuracy, the first destination for this reborn, more daring me was Tibet, thus initiating a new love affair, this time with the culture and majesty of the Himalayan swathe, and the awakening within me of a quest for the spiritual. I had, over the years, been a teacher, a lecturer, a consultant and an advisor, but I now wanted to inspire and release my verbal and photographic creativity, to capture the places I visited and the experiences I had in words and images—and if possible to have the wherewithal of sharing them with like-minded people.”

RomanceCulturePersonal GrowthMemoirCovid 192020NepalHimalayasCross Cultural
Book:A Rainbow of Chaos: A Year of Love & Lockdown in Nepal
Create image