“So it is with all beauty,” she said cheerfully. “Every glory also shits.” — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it. — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“When you are a certain age or when you have lost certain things and people, Aimee’s crippling grief will make a terrible poisoned dark… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk?… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“Her neural pattern must remain intact for the time being, as it was still necessary that she stay herself. Changes to her identity would… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“If you have to die [...] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“Djinn,” she said. “We go to review the troops. Clothe me as befits a queen.” “Silks and satins?” he asked, eyes sparkling like sapphires.… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.” — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
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