Blood and Iron Quotes

“All that power they’d squirreled away had needed to be released, focused, channeled.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“a friend told me that in a good marriage, nobody wins.” Matthew frowned, nibbling his thumbnail, noticing she’d sidestepped his question about the wards quite neatly. “I’m not sure I understand what you mean.” “A marriage is a state of dynamic tension. It works as long as nobody gets the upper hand and keeps it.” She”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“All iron comes from stars,” Seeker replied, her hand still not quite brushing the hilt of the blade. “It’s the last element they can burn before they go nova. Iron’s the skeletons of stars, and it’s what makes our blood red. I”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Fyodor came up behind him, a wolf among wolves, and pressed his body against the boy’s narrow back. Vanya moved back, shifting from foot to foot, an anxious whine hovering low in his throat. Ian shivered harder, Keith and Fyodor holding him tight, arms around each other’s shoulders, eyes meeting as Ian buried his head in his father’s shoulder and folded into the embrace.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Keith closed his fingers tight on Ian’s doublet-thinking that a wolf would grasp a cub so, by the scruff, careful to break the skin-and dragged him into an embrace.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“His tone was amused, silky-sweet, but Keith caught the worry under it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“As you wish, my lady. Keep your crown, and your cruelty. Love me not. I will go.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“You change in my arms and change again, and all I can do is hold you.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Diplomacy amounts to nothing; it all comes down to blood and iron in the end.”

“Don’t misquote Bismark at me.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“A wry smile from the Faerie, rather than the wrath he had been half-afraid of.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Carel looked at me, stricken. Bound to me, and by more than tangles in my hair.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“She was my mother and she smiled at me, and held out her her hand.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“She should have been in her seventies, but she looked trim in a violet suit, discreet diamonds glittering in her ears. Her shoes were sensible for walking.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“The city, a beast all its own: a beast of stone with iron teeth and a heart of hot meat, pulsing living blood through its arteries and avenues.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“The Merlin’s sense of humor would be the death of me yet.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“He felt eyes on him. He didn’t turn to see if they were Jane’s.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Prometheans were never shy about appropriating symbols.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Eddies of Magi collected in the corners, rejoined the spiral when there was a gap.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“She laid a hand on his shoulder, a motherly gesture that made his skin crawl.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Her hand on his arm was like a mooring rope, a promise of harbor.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“I couldn’t have called after her. My throat was full of thorns and no words could have gotten past.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Slowly, slowly, she turned to look over her shoulder, the fall of her hair kissing the high bone of her cheek.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“I found myself looking at her profile: straight, proud nose and an arch expression. Her lips curved.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“She leaned back against the rough trunk of a tree, half-invisible in the twilight except where it caught in glimmers on the titian of her hair.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“I had seen her in the shadows. She had been waiting for some time.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“I turned back so he would see me smile through the shadows, and Whiskey bore me into the trees before I so much as shifted my weight.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“It stung that his words didn’t mean more to me than they did.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“I’ve come back to you for a reason, Mother of Dragons-mistress of worms and serpents, from the smallest crawlers that renew the loam to the world-girding monster devouring his own tail.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“Keith was surprised that his own mount seemed singularly unimpressed by the hellbeast.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron

“He looked so terribly young, a slender boy with a boy’s narrow shoulders and his father’s, green, green eyes.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron