129 Quotes by Elizabeth Bear

Angelo," he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.

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

Some things are just universal.Like the known scientific fact that the colder and wetter you are, the better bacon smells frying.

And then I had my greatest stroke of genius since that ham sandwich with pickles that time.

Then, oh shit, nanotech tentacles.

For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you’re a sorry state of affairs.

Pride’s worth a lot, it’s the only thing that can keep you walking when it feels like your feet’s worn down to the nubs. But as my ma would have said, you got to remember pride is a tool. You use it; you don’t let it use you. And you don’t sell your happiness ‘cause your spine’s too stiff to bend.

Our earth was just one thin example of what was possible, and because it was possible, this history was inevitable.

Lindy-hop could go back to being just a social thing. But where she belonged in life After the Meteor, was here. Here, she made a difference. Sprained ankle and all.