Elizabeth Bear quotes:

The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another

Some would say a whore don't have no expectation of Heaven. I'd say, if she gives value for cash, she's got a better shot at God's blessing than your average banker. Jesus loved Mary Magdalene. He kicked over tables when He met a moneylender.

The end of the world was supposed to be gradual. There was supposed to be warning. A long, slow slide. What we got was punctuated equilibrium: a stately wobbling, then a sudden tipping point. There was plenty of warning, I suppose. We just weren't paying attention.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?""In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

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

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

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

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

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.

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

Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.

If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?