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.

- Elizabeth Bear

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

- Elizabeth Bear

BLINDSIGHT is fearless: a magnificent, darkly gleaming jewel of a book that hurdles the contradictions inherent in biochemistry, consciousness, and h…

- Elizabeth Bear

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 Samark…

- Elizabeth Bear

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

- Elizabeth Bear

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.

- Elizabeth Bear

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

- Elizabeth Bear

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 stat…

- Elizabeth Bear

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

- Elizabeth Bear