The Chains That You Refuse Quotes

“Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse

“We never had the conversation, but I imagined it a thousand times.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse

“Peel off the pretences and the same history lies beneath. Night and day aren’t opposites.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse

“This is my city, and I’m her Jack. I’m not going anywhere.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse

“Isn’t it possible that each of us lives an infinite number of lives, the threads parting and joining like a flow of wax down a candlestick-many threads, but a common direction? Many truths, one Truth?”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse

“There were worse days to be alive.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse

“Friendship can snap like ice, just as you trust it with your weight.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse

“We’re both human now, human and wounded, and we’ve seen each other weak.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse

“It’s sexy. Far sexier than the rest of my fire-scarred body, and I hate it with the sort of idealogical loathing that used to be reserved for nuclear weapons and politicians.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Chains That You Refuse