129 Quotes by Elizabeth Bear

Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. “Live and learn, child,” he said. “Everybody’s worthy of respect.

Electricity is a remarkably simple – though dangerous – animal.

Once you absorb the maths, it’s all perfectly clear.

The harpy smiles. A harpy’s smile is an ugly thing, even seen edge-on. The harpy says, You do not have the power to make me not alone, Desiree.

Only exploitation under various systems all claiming to be different, but all amounting to the farming of the many to make wealthy the few. Serfdoms and indenturehood and chattel slavery.

Nobody called her Moggy except for Mother, either. Nobody ever called me Kittycat except my family, and people who were looking for a fight.

He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

Why didn’t you mention how you were feeling?” “Because it’s feelings,” I said. “And feelings are terrible.

The universe was very beautiful. I looked out through the lock into the darkless night, and the hugeness of the galaxy took my breath away.