N. K. Jemisin

"There is no logic to grief."

"“Well, isn’t that what fathers do?” He had no idea what fathers did. “Love you, even if you don’t love them? Miss you when you go away?"

"Mother always said that if one must do something unpleasant, one should do it wholeheartedly and not waste effort on regret."

"I...regret...what I did. It was wrong. Very wrong. But regret is meaningless."

"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."

"I think you’re just so gods-damned certain of your own importance that you haven’t figured it out. So let me make this clear: I don’t care about you. You’re irrelevant. It’s a waste of my energy even …"

"Unconditional love: childhood’s greatest magic."

"But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much."