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