Elizabeth Bear Quotes
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Butter wouldn't have melted my smile, I swear.
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Memory is a spiderweb. It hangs in a corner and collects dust. Until you need it to catch a fly.
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It’s funny, ain’t it, that nobody holds giving men the illusion they want about themselves against wives, though they hold it against the sisters. And nobody holds it against the illusionists, though they do against spiritualists. I’m not quite sure how to explain what I’m driving at, except it seems to me that these things is all linked.
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Sometimes the truth, told right, was the best lie.
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The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.
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Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.
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The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.
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You’d never break this one. You’d never even bend her. She’d die like Joan of Arc first, and spit blood on you through a smile.
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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
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I don't know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man's hand.
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Technology is always double-edged, and the day stone tools were invented, axe murder became possible.
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That night, he kept activating the readout from his chip on the mobile’s login screen: Enfranchised.
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Amazing what people can fail to see when it’s a man doing it to a woman, even a respectable-looking woman.
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Nobody called her Moggy except for Mother, either. Nobody ever called me Kittycat except my family, and people who were looking for a fight.
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So why a woman did the same should be judged different … well, women always is. Judged different, I mean.
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Most of the people who fail in what they want to accomplish do so because they underestimate who they are. When they don’t believe they can succeed at something, they have little chance.
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There’s value in work you enjoy, or that serves a need. There’s no value in work for its own sake.
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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
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If you have to die better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed down with all that knowing.
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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.
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I liked her scowl and I liked her freedom to wear it.
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The tactic seemed to work, so he stuck to the same theme for the next few days, but there was only so much cryptography he could teach before it started squeezing out everything else.
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I heard that, too. Nope. I’m an animal behaviorist. Here to assess recent changes in communication patterns. You in whale processing?