Elizabeth Bear Quotes
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I should of been chewing on my words some, so everybody else would have had a better chance of swallowing them.
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One of the interesting things about programming people of all sorts to be more ethical is that it also makes them more ethical about the limits of programming people to be ethical.
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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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Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.
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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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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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We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.
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Aristotle, asked what those who tell lies gain by it, replied: That when they speak the truth they are not believed.
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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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Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.
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Though I am otherwise relentlessly normal, I have one peculiarity: I get along well only with people who are smarter than me.
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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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You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway.
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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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Butter wouldn't have melted my smile, I swear.
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You ever hear somebody blithely say something so amazingly plastered over with bullshit it just makes your eyes bug?
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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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Her neural pattern must remain intact for the time being, as it was still necessary that she stay herself. Changes to her identity would eventually become inevitable, but those would have to wait until she no longer needed the cloak of who she was.
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I don’t have any control over what memories I get, when I get them. Except every single one of them is something I would have rather forgotten.
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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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Sometimes the truth, told right, was the best lie.
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If there was one vice his old masters could smell out from a thousand li away, it was thinking too well of yourself. Or the other form of vanity that was thinking too little.
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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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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.