Dharthi Quotes

“Her adaptshell was beautifully tailored to this terrain, and that fur shed water like the hydrophobic miracle of engineering that it was.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“She would look at this natural majesty, and try to spot the places where an unnaturally geometric line or angle showed in the topography of the canopy.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“It was the third time in Dharthi’s one hundred solar days of life she had glimpsed the sun.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“It was ironically inevitable that Dharthi, named by her parents in a fit of homesickness for Terra, would grow up to be the most Cytherean of Cythereans.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“She took great pride in her adaptation, in her ability to rough it. Some of the indigenous animals could be eaten, and Dharthi knew which ones. She also knew, more importantly, which ones were likely to eat her.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“Even walking, observing, surviving, she had entirely too much time to think.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“The trap of biology appalled her; she found it impossible to comprehend how people in the olden days had gotten anything done, with their painfully short lives and their limited access to resources, education, and technology”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“Panic gets you eaten.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“Survival was starting to seem like less of a pipe dream now.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“Sleep was sleep, and she wasn’t getting enough of it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear

“The rhythm of her feet soothed her when nothing else could.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Best of Elizabeth Bear