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

> I knew what it was at last—the visible manifestation of my will. My power, inherited from my god ancestors and distilled through generations of humanity, given shape and energy and potential. That was all magic was, really, in the end. Possibility. With it I could create anything, provided I believed.

- 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: 349
- 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-what

## 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)