# Quote — N. K. Jemisin, The Broken Kingdoms

> But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.

- Author: [N. K. Jemisin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin.md)
- Book: [The Broken Kingdoms](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms.md)
- Page: 181
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Broken_Kingdoms_(2010)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/but-though-i-repeated

## More from this book

> When people questioned this, the priests simply said, The world has changed. We must change with it.
>
> You can imagine how well that went over.

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/when-people-questioned.md)

> Very quickly I fell in with others like me—newcomers, dreamers, young people drawn to the city in spite of its dangers because sometimes, for some of us, tedium and familiarity feel worse than risking your life.

p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/very-quickly-i-fell.md)

> What happened when people who’d once possessed absolute power suddenly lost it?

p. 170 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/what-happened-when.md)