# Quote — N. K. Jemisin, The Kingdom Of Gods

> The child in her wanted to do as she pleased, cling to impossible hopes. The woman in her wanted to make sound decisions, succeed even if it meant sacrifice. The woman would win; that was inevitable. But the child would not go quietly.

- Author: [N. K. Jemisin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin.md)
- Book: [The Kingdom Of Gods](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods.md)
- Page: 173
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/N._K._Jemisin#The_Kingdom_of_Gods_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/the-child-in-her

## More from this book

> Unconditional love: childhood’s greatest magic.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/unconditional-love-childhoods.md)

> Magic is merely communication, after all.
>
> Communication, and conduits.

p. 325 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/magic-is-merely.md)

> I’d come down sick. (I had. It was called adolescence, an evil, evil disease.)

p. 170 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-kingdom-of-gods/id-come-down.md)