22 Quotes by Aliette de Bodard

You leave behind your fine poems.You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into the Light, O Quechomitl, you leave behind the flowers and the singing and the earth. Safe journey, O friend.

I still couldn’t banish the image of the Quetzal Flower. In my mind, it merged with that of Priestess Eleuia: everything a man could desire or aspire to, a woman who would suck the marrow from your bones and still leave you smiling.

All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who’d just caught prey— which boded ill for Silverspires.

It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts.

When I read 'Dream of Red Mansions,' I was really struck by the fact that it was built differently from a lot of genre works. Specifically, a lot of the events that should have taken centre-stage - wars, social upheavals - were seen entirely through the eyes of the women of a Chinese household.

We’ve discussed this before. Not just other people saying yes, but whether they mean it, or whether they’re just doing it because they’re afraid.

Anyway, the fire doesn’t matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all.

Ssshhh. It’s all right.” And does it matter that it’s not, if it gets them through the night?

She wanted to apologize again, but how many times could she repeat empty words without becoming empty herself?