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1 " If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above? "
― Elizabeth Bear , Range of Ghosts (Eternal Sky, #1)
2 " What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it. "
― Elizabeth Bear , Shattered Pillars (Eternal Sky, #2)
3 " Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender. "
― Elizabeth Bear , Karen Memory (Karen Memory, #1)
4 " She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her.Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow. "
5 " Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope. "
― Elizabeth Bear , Whiskey and Water (Promethean Age, #2)
6 " Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you. "
― Elizabeth Bear , Carnival
7 " For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you’re a sorry state of affairs. "
― Elizabeth Bear , Ink and Steel (Promethean Age, #3)
8 " You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames. "
― Elizabeth Bear , New Amsterdam (New Amsterdam, #1)
9 " 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. "
10 " The cold could kill me, but it’s no worse than the memories. Endurable as long as I keep moving. "
― Elizabeth Bear , The Best of Elizabeth Bear
11 " Memories weigh something. They weigh you down. "
12 " I am a sorcerer, lad, not a cannibal. "
13 " Much as she despised the man, she had to admit to a certain agreeable shiver when his lips brushed her glove. "
14 " Absently her hand came up to press the place between her breasts where a sigil tattooed in crimson marked her training. She felt as if his gaze burrowed through cloth to notice it. "
15 " He let her have the silence while she selected her words. "
16 " Life went on; there were apples in the markets now, and squash, and cabbages and potatoes to set by for winter. It was Garrett’s job to be concerned with justice and the dead. "
17 " He was about the color, shape, and size of an ostrich-feather duster and suited Garrett much better than either of them suited the décor of her townhouse. "
18 " Say what you would about the Crown Investigator; she was a lady who could hold her liquor. She chortled at the thought: most unladylike, which made her laugh the more. "
19 " The voice resonated, a sound like the wind scraping the corners of old buildings and racing down the narrow streets. "
20 " Sebastien had raised Jack Priest, and for all his fey flighty affection, Garrett’s estimation of the young man was that he was a keenly trained observer, and one who knew that the most relevant clues were sometimes those that seemed incomprehensible at the time. And that that ostensible delicacy masked a galvanized will.She kept a terrier. She knew the type. "
