129 Quotes by Elizabeth Bear

When he arrived, he found that this was true. New York was no less impressive for being mostly fictional. Of course, the place was lousy with writers.

Spooky,” I whispered under my breath, and wondered if the last thing I ever said was going to be a not-very-funny physics joke.

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.

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and human hearts without breaking stride.

Women have more of that patience, as a class. That ain’t because we’re born with it, though. It’s because we’re schooled to it and taught early that if we don’t have it we won’t never win.

How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk? If it is safe?

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It’s not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.

There are multiple claims to Mr. Smart.

I don’t know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man’s hand.