Elizabeth Bear famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Lying #Believe #Heart
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

#Frustration #Able #Lifetime
You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
-- Elizabeth Bear

#Believe #Flames #Vampire
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.
-- Elizabeth Bear

#Warrior #Compassion #Hands
Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope.
-- Elizabeth Bear

#Tragedy #Minors
Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.
-- Elizabeth Bear

#People #Giving #Opinion
If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?
-- Elizabeth Bear

#Kings #Disagree
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 werenâ€™t paying attention.
-- Elizabeth Bear

#Long #Attention #Tipping
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.
-- Elizabeth Bear

#Book #Heart #Jewels

I walk up a dune to a beach and look out to sea, but it's 100km away. The ships lie askew in their dry beds, at anchor for ever. Today is my son's birthday. Thousands of miles from here, his healthy lungs are blowing out candles. I should be there but I'm here with another boy, who puts his face close to mine and laughs. I smile back but realise he can't see it, because I'm wearing an antiseptic muzzles to protect me from his breath.
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.
May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.

Elizabeth Bear famous quotes

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