Quotes from Marie Brennan

I set to work making a place for myself in Society, even if it was not the place Society intended for me.

If science were only some abstract thing, without connection to our lives, it would be both useless and boring. But there have been times when I wished that I might snip a few of the threads tying it to other matters, so they would stop tripping me as I went.

I'm sometimes amazed the human species survived to the present day, given the things we did to ourselves in the name of healing." p. 103, Elemental Imbalances

That image—last night's dream—made me think of the quote I had taped to the top of my screen, Professor Madison paraphrasing Mark Twain. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and prophecy.

Empaths Do It With Fühlung.

But one does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger. I would have loved to place that in the jewelry box of my memory.

Let it never be said that I court my own death without proper planning.

Wild animals. I had not, until that moment, put dragons in that class. I had thought them something apart.

And since human minds are very good at finding patterns, and ours had recently shifted from looking for bad luck to looking for good, we wrote off setbacks as expected, rather than proof of misfortune.

some of whom did not know declensions from décolletage. It

Robert—who knew quite well that he had the empathic sensitivity of a whelk—did not expect to have any such difficulties himself.

She reached out with her free hand, and when it came back, it glowed with a shaft of impossible light.

I would choose the heat above an equal degree of chill. The evidence of natural history points to a tropical origin for our species, and I believe it to be true.