Danilaw Quotes

“Sometimes, laziness was the next best thing to genius.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail

“We have reason to believe,” he said, “that the object indicated by that icon is a sublight colony ship from Earth which has been lost and presumed destroyed since the time of the Kleptocracy.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail

“Conversation was more interesting than one man droning on and on. It held the audience better. And Danilaw would have used puppets if he thought it would get his cabinet to pay attention.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail

“Danilaw Bakare was on a nightclub stage when the world ended.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail

“Wrack and waste, the Kleptocracy actually did it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail

“Fear was not a familiar sensation, and this fear-stranger-fear of the unknown-even less so. Among the legacies of atavism corrected by rightminding was the overactive fear response of the human amygdala to anything foreign or strange.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail

“Danilaw’s underlying genetic users meant his own emotional balance could stray from perfection and his inherited neurochemistry meant that his rightminding fell in need of more frequent-than-usual maintenance. Not enough to cause a social disadvantage, or free him from Obligations-but enough to make him wish sometimes it might.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail

“It was a relief to speak his native tongue, familiar words and known patterns that had settled into his bones with father’s milk and rooted deep.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail

“The worst of it was, he had come to like the Jacobeans, in all their sophipathic insanity. They might be grotesaries, caricatures, larger than life and full of violence-but they were also shockingly generous and, sometimes, shockingly funny.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Grail