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…

— Elizabeth Bear

“He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear…

— Elizabeth Bear

“How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is…

— Elizabeth Bear

“The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.”

— Elizabeth Bear

“...one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway.…

— Elizabeth Bear

The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so…

— Elizabeth Bear

“Her neural pattern must remain intact for the time being, as it was still necessary that she stay herself. Changes to her…

— Elizabeth Bear

“If you have to die [...] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and…

— Elizabeth Bear

The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we…

— Elizabeth Bear

“Djinn,” she said. “We go to review the troops. Clothe me as befits a queen.” “Silks and satins?” he asked, eyes sparkling…

— Elizabeth Bear

“...there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.”

— Elizabeth Bear

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

— Elizabeth Bear

“When the Dragon bent her neck to shift a wing long as a battlefold, an ashen sheen rippled over char-dark scales.”

— Elizabeth Bear

“But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would…

— Elizabeth Bear

“The words were low, more shape than breath.”

— Elizabeth Bear

“After thousands of years, the ray-gun reached Earth. It fell from the sky like a meteor; it grew hot enough to glow,…

— Elizabeth Bear

“My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and…

— Elizabeth Bear

“For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you’re a…

— Elizabeth Bear

Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

— Elizabeth Bear

“So it is with all beauty,” she said cheerfully. “Every glory also shits.”

— Elizabeth Bear

You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

— Elizabeth Bear

“The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.”

— Elizabeth Bear

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?

— Elizabeth Bear

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts…

— Elizabeth Bear

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water…

— Elizabeth Bear