Hell and Earth
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“Rudeness is a weak person's imitation of strength.”
Source: Range of Ghosts
Source: Karen Memory
Source: In the House of Aryaman, a Lonely Signal Burns
“Was this what agitation looked like in a goddess?”
Source: The Red-Stained Wings
Source: Mongoose: Part I
“A silk shawl, as indigo as the midnight heavens, lay draped across the god’s brass thighs.”
Source: Shoggoths in Bloom and Other Stories
“The Mebd was playing a game. If she was breathing, she was playing games.”
Source: Blood and Iron
Source: Dust
Source: Dust
“Exalt humans were more robust than Mean ones, but they were still human.”
Source: Grail
“Obviously, teaching my house to grow a consciousness is a great idea.”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“A man’s fortress can be his prison.”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
Source: Machine
Source: Machine
Source: Machine
Source: Hammered
Source: Hammered
“For Leah. Yes. Because for her, I would crawl through fire.”
Source: Hammered
“Sorry doesn’t cut it in my world. Pay me back, or get the hell out of my life.”
Source: Hammered
“Was I really taking dating advice from Baba Yaga?”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
Source: Seven for a Secret
“Morgan met Kit’s gaze calmly, her eyes dark and mysterious as emeralds in the weird, cold light.”
Source: Hell and Earth
Source: Hammered
Source: Hammered
Source: On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera
“She blinked, and considered and slicked her whiskers against her face in contemplation.”
Source: All the Windwracked Stars
“She laughed, a cat’s soundless amusement, and nodded thanks.”
Source: All the Windwracked Stars
“You breathed envy across her face, imagining you could see it roll from you like a mist.”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“You were not beautiful. You wished you were beautiful.”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“They knew all about being a frightening thing in a museum.”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“What is the difference between a collar and a crown?”
Source: The Best of Elizabeth Bear
“Keith was surprised that his own mount seemed singularly unimpressed by the hellbeast.”
Source: Blood and Iron
“Richard is made in the image of a physicist dead since the previous century.”
Source: Scardown
“He’s not Richard Feynman-just an artificial persona, a program meant to mimic the original.”
Source: Scardown
“Then, oh shit, nanotech tentacles.”
Source: Machine
Source: Dust
Source: Dust
Source: Chill
Source: New Amsterdam
Source: New Amsterdam
“She leaned into the embrace for a long, quiet moment, listening to the pounding of his heart.”
Source: New Amsterdam
Source: New Amsterdam
Source: New Amsterdam
Source: New Amsterdam
“She wondered when she had moved from mere conspiracy to treason.”
Source: New Amsterdam
Source: New Amsterdam