Elizabeth Bear Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.