I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me, I said. I want to be myself. Don't be a child. I looked up, startled and angry, though of course t… - N. K. Jemisin

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I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me, I said. I want to be myself.
Don't be a child.
I looked up, startled and angry, though of course there was nothing to see. What?
You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I'm tired of your whining.

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About N. K. Jemisin

Nora Keita Jemisin (born September 19, 1972) is an American speculative fiction writer and blogger.

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Alternative Names: Nora K. Jemisin Nora Keita Jemisin
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All energy is the same, through its different states and names. Movement creates heat which is also light that waves like sound which tightens or loosens the atomic bonds of crystal as they hum with strong and weak forces. In mirroring resonance with all of this is magic, the radiant emission of life and death.

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