Mrithuri Quotes

“Comforting to think that difficulty might stay a hand when ethics would not.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“She craved the sweet focus and strength of her venom.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“It’s not as if we can leave the war to cool its heels in our parlor until we get around to greeting it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“What she had would be enough. It would have to be enough, because it was all she had.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“She wanted her snakes. She wanted her snakes, and she did not want to see Chaeri.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“It was easier to talk if she pretended she was speaking into darkness.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“A drape would have shown the bandage over her ribs, and in any case she barely had the energy to stand, and her whole body shuddered with cold and the craving for her venom.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Everything familiar was made strange.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“You will change, or you will die.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“She felt as if her soul has been scoured.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings