Ad Eternum Quotes

“Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“If you do not love yourself, as you are now, my dear Ragoczy, how little will you love yourself when a hundred years have refined you that much closer to your core?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“If I were cruel,” the wampyr said, “I would grant your wish.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“What better way to make students see a wampyr as a…well, as not so much a monster, than to teach them?”

“Damian,” the wampyr said softly. “I am a monster, my dear.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“The wampyr was careful, and took as little as he could bear, as slowly as he could bear. It was hard to stop, with the rush of warmth and life into his body after so long dry and chill and hungry.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“You will have a home at our college for all eternity. Universities and churches-what else is that that lasts as long as vampires do? Not nations, certainly…”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“There are many schools where a student can go to study magic,” Damian saiid. “There aren’t many where he can study magic with someone who has watched a good bit of it develop.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“He could all but vanish in a busy room, simply by sitting still. He had been dead so long that living people no longer registered him as a presence unless he forced the issue.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“I do not require that you believe me. Only that you entertain me. After all, is that not what we are here for?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“Dr. Wehrmeister laughed out loud, no polite girlish trill, but something hearty and spontaneous.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“She grinned at the wampyr as he raised her hand, an honestly entertained smirk that took her age from nondescript, but not old, to youthful and full of mischief.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“He bowed in an intentionally archaic fashion, handed her his hat, and stepped in.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“It wasn’t like a museum, be realized. It was a museum. A museum of a world that was dead.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“A lifetime in excess of a century was enough time to accumulate a great many strange friends.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum