Elizabeth Bear Quotes
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The world stood pinned on two thorns. One was ugliness. One was beauty. The truth did not lie in the middle or at either extreme. The truth encompassed both.
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If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?
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The words were low, more shape than breath.
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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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Rudeness is a weak person's imitation of strength.
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Technology is always double-edged, and the day stone tools were invented, axe murder became possible.
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I wondered who lonely women paid to listen. As with so much, it seemed as if the world had a solution for the one but not the other.
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A woman in the West? You show me one who doesn’t drink, and I’ll show you one that wants to.
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The only God is in the numbers and the fire; in the equations and the furnace.
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The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.
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I liked her scowl and I liked her freedom to wear it.
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I was just the one who upgraded her software and made sure that nothing broke down. If anyone was equipped for the job, it was me, the professional computational linguist.
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Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.
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How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk? If it is safe?
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What would it do to your psyche if this were your sky? What would it do to the racial awareness of your species if this were their memory of their dirt-bound cradle, before they stepped out into the great emptiness beyond?
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I don’t believe in God. She drops by once in a while and we argue about it. Now can you stop yammering on with your questions long enough for us to steal a few horses?
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I’m sorry, but I don’t know any stories.
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We must create our children alive and fragile and pulsing with the hot blood that is so easy, so terribly easy to spill.
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I wished I could offer her tea. You don’t think about it, but all those little fusses we make over company have their purposes. They give us something to do with our hands and our anxiousness until everybody settles in and starts having fun.
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No one is making me say this. No one is making me tell this story. Nobody’s ever been much good at making me say anything I hadn’t already made up my mind to say.
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Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.
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So it’s a good thing Connie sent me with a list, because otherwise I might wind up bewildered and wandering the aisles until I wasted away to a haint.
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As any parent can tell you, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They’re probably doing something they don’t want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they’ll hide the evidence.