129 Quotes by Elizabeth Bear

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her.Tomorrow’s problems she’d take care of tomorrow.

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

Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.

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

I don’t have any control over what memories I get, when I get them. Except every single one of them is something I would have rather forgotten.-- "Erase, Erase, Erase

Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.

Memory is a spiderweb. It hangs in a corner and collects dust. Until you need it to catch a fly.

Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you.