Quotes from Elizabeth Bear

He felt her moving, tasted her sweetness like venomed blood.

It was the most stunning protest I could think of, dying to oppose the Synarche, doing a little damage along the way.

Elizabeth had been eternal. Elizabeth was England. Elizabeth was deathly tired.

The Mebd glanced over at her sister Morgan, and the two women shared an enigmatic smile.

I had other problems now. A whole private fleet of them.

I do not understand why he takes payment to protect us from himself.

He heard Will's startled gasp, the long slow rattle of his breath permitted to slide back out.

Farweather just wanted what she wanted. She did what she felt like doing. She didn't care who got hurt, and she didn't feel social responsibilit to mitigate the harm, or seek compromise, or balance her needs against the needs of others.

I am the Seeker of the changed. The Queen of the Daoine Sidhe has me tangled in her hair.

No one spoke, and Kit realized they were all listening as intently to his quiet conversation with Murchaud as if they leaned close over a candle-lit table in some table, whispering conspiracies.

Surely her sacrifice, my sacrifice, could not be in vain.

If she'd meant to shame him, it seemed to roll off like water from slate.

In the course of a long unlife, borders might cross as often as one crossed borders.

I didn't reach out. I just…sat still. Held to myself. And let the universe come to me.

Memories weigh something. They weigh you down.

They were on opposite sides of this issue, and both of them had catastrophically let me down.

Kit felt the heavy lift and drop of the Prince's shoulders, the swing of his cloak, and spared a moment for his own patchwork cloak.

As an old crew chief of mine used to point out, you might be dead long before the problem you didn't have the resources to fix right now became a critical need, so why waste more resources worrying about it?

Maybe she was winning the argument-a prospect that both scared and excited me.

What is it that thou seekest, Elf-Knight? Thou hast not made that plain to me, but thou must have some use for me, or thou wouldst not have been so kind, so long.

Such a pretty lad," she said. "I remember your brother very well. Good sport in that one.

Don't wander far. I'd hate to see kidnapped by pirates. They have an eye for a pretty man.

Breath held, I will her to speak without making me ask for it, but Riel plays this game better than I do.

No matter what kind of nonsense is going on around you, the first moment of stepping out of a vehicle into space is always awe-inspiring, the more so here in the Core than elsewhere.