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> [“My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/my-love-is-not-water-in-a-bucket-you-know-it-s-not-as-if-someone-else/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

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## More by Elizabeth Bear

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/when-you-are-a-certain-age-or-when-you-have-lost-certain-things-and/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/he-made-a-noise-she-recognized-one-that-meant-he-was-organizing/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/how-will-you-know-that-you-love-if-there-is-no-terror-of-losing-is-it/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/the-older-he-got-the-simpler-the-world-was-revealed-to-be/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/one-must-come-to-the-understanding-in-the-end-that-one-was-always/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/the-secret-to-getting-away-with-lying-is-believing-with-all-your/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“Her neural pattern must remain intact for the time being, as it was still necessary that she stay herself. Changes to her identity would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/her-neural-pattern-must-remain-intact-for-the-time-being-as-it-was/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [ “If you have to die \[...\] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/if-you-have-to-die-better-to-go-down-fighting-better-to-die-in/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/the-end-of-the-world-was-supposed-to-be-gradual-there-was-supposed-to/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“Djinn,” she said. “We go to review the troops. Clothe me as befits a queen.” “Silks and satins?” he asked, eyes sparkling like sapphires.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/djinn-she-said-we-go-to-review-the-troops-clothe-me-as-befits-a-queen/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/there-were-none-so-scornful-as-those-who-had-had-to-learn-the-hard-way/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/every-one-of-us-is-a-minor-tragedy-most-of-us-learn-to-cope/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“When the Dragon bent her neck to shift a wing long as a battlefold, an ashen sheen rippled over char-dark scales.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/when-the-dragon-bent-her-neck-to-shift-a-wing-long-as-a-battlefold-an/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/but-doc-knew-that-was-the-key-to-successful-lying-people-judged-what/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

> [“The words were low, more shape than breath.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-bear/the-words-were-low-more-shape-than-breath/)

[Elizabeth Bear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-bear/)

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