Carnival Quotes

“Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“A world of complexity in that syllable.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Angelo," he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“She semed calm as she watched Julian pack food away, and not at all lik a woman contemplating a Dragon. A duel.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“The bipeds plot. Clever, delicious bipeds, random and amusing. They are eager for change, ravenous for it, for the antithesis of Consent.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“It was such an arrogant, audacious plan. Exactly the sort of thing Vincent would come up with, really.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Not trying to stare the Dragon in the eye seemed to ease her.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“If Michelangelo was too proud to lean, Vincent wasn’t.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Funny how he could always tell exactly where Michelangelo’s attention was, even when Angelo was pretending it was somewhere else.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Vincent stood, all lithe grace, and let his hand rest warmly on Michelangelo’s shoulder.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“They were the first ones to die, you know. You can’t accuse them of hypocrisy. The Governors Assessed their creators first.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Elena put one hand out, pressing her palm to the bole of a tree to steady herself, and sighed as if she could put all her pain and worry onto the wind and let it be carried away.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“An interrogation was a relationship, and relationships were based on developing trust.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“The little cultural differences could seem absolutely homey, compared to the big ones.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Lifting her head, blinking sweat from her lashes, she studied the vines on her right side, looking for a place with fever thorns.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“His hair was unmistakeable, a startling light color that Lesa was almost temptd to call blond, though nobody classically blond had survived Assessment.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“The last thing this fumbling child needed was to think somebody he was looking to as a role model found him amusing.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“The cosmic irony of the moment didn’t elude him.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“The Dragon’s direct, forward gaze was as intent as any predator’s, and meeting it made Vincent very aware that he was small and-mostly-quite soft-fleshed.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Angelo’s description hadn’t prepared Vincent for the reality of Kii. That serpentine shape emerging from camouflaging jungle triggered atavistic responses, an adrenaline spike for which his watch barely compensated. He took one unwilling step back anyway, shivering, and forced himself to pretend to be calm.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“What an intoxicating idea: an alien-a real alien. A creature of mythic resonance.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“New Amazonia turns out to be a hotbed of political unrest.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“We didn’t build House. We just adapted it, learned how to program it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“We didn’t build House. We just adaptd it, learned how to program it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Michelangelo Osiris Leary Kusanagi-Jones, Liar, was going to have to tell someone the truth.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Vincent’s loyalty to the job had always been unimpeachable…but Kusanagi-Jones was about to gamble that his loyalty to the partnership would outweigh it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Kusanagi-Jones had only one idea, and it involved doing something he hadn’t willingly done in his adult life.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“Strike two for Utopia. The problem with the damned things always comes when you try to introduce actual people into your philosophical constructs.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival

“By the way, should you have the opportunity to be kidnapped by radicals, you’d rather fall in with the Right Hand Path than with Maenads, if you get the choice.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Carnival