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

> I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.

- 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: 120
- 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/i-knew-as-well

## 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)