Kadiska Quotes

“Someone unraveled from the shadows under a gorse shrub, uncoiling taller than anything had a right to from such a small hiding place. The woman swayed like a cobra, standing clad only in a deluge of golden bracelets and necklaces and a bright patterned sarong that stood out like blood on black marble against her skin. Rubies glittered in her ears, her nose, her navel. Rows of tiny beadlike scars shiny as drops of sweat covered her breasts, her arms, her forehead.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Where would the fun be if the chase were easy? Besides, I think she likes you.”

“Oh, wonderful. Maybe she’d like you too, if you got those teeth capped. Want my pie?”

Kadiska’s necklaces rasped on on another as she stepped away.”

“No, thank you,” she said. “But I’ll bet you an amber ring you’ll have her in bed before I will.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“The shadow towered, from the snake to a shape with tufted ears laid flat, a lynx.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“The light through beech limbs dappled her long indigo-black torso, leafy transluscence, creating a diffuse green glow broken by dancing radiant rays.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Whiskey and Water

“Loose crimson trousers wrapped her lower body, her bracelets and necklaces tinkling like glass bells as she breathed.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Whiskey and Water