Perceval Quotes

“Perceval was fevered, and her blood-still shocked by the unblade and the amputation of her wings-was not fighting as it should.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Dust

“Briefly, she thought of murder. Her hands itched for the wash of blood. But this was the blood she wanted.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Dust

“Perceval might be light as a ghost made of twigs and wire. But she was Exalt, daughter of Engineers and the House of Conn, and there was machine strength in her blood.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Dust

“She knew what they had been up to, of course; it would have been hard to miss it, between the giggling and the scent of sex-and nobody had ever warned her how disturbing it would be to hear a necromancer giggle-but that was all right, wasn’t it?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Dust

“Arms folded across her rib cage, chin drifted, Perceval could have been a statue labeled defiance.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Dust

“This time, there had been no evident danger, but nevertheless she was carried helplessly into the air and away.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Dust

“If she could externalize, make the emotion other, she would not believe it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Dust

“Perceval smiled inside, but she would not let her lips curve. No one must see her mirth at an execution-no one except the executed, who would know it without being shown.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Chill

“Just like a Conn, she thought. Eating everything in sight.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Chill

“Les légendes ne meurent que si ont les accomplit.”
― Christian de Montella, Graal (Tome 3) - La nef du lion