Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition Quotes

“But Doc knew that was the key to successful lying. People judged what other people would do by what they themselves would do. You could tell a hell of a lot about a man by what he assumed others got up to. If you're looking for a thief, bet on the man who's always accusing his neighbors.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Poor critter, Doc thought. Marooned here like Robinson Crusoe. And we’re the cannibal savages.”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Back in the nineteenth century, chemists used to joke that you could tell who had just discovered elemental fluorine by reading the obituary columns.”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“the next thing you know you discover you’ve been drafted into some kind of DARPA-funded think tank, or wake up with a hangover in a North Korean labour camp, doomed to spend the next two years coaching the Great Leader’s son through writing the Nobel Prize–winning SF novel that daddy expects him to produce.”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Half the men in the room were drawn to her as flies to a ripe apricot.”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Copyright (C) 2012 by Elizabeth Bear”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Copyright © 2011 by Adam-Troy Castro”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“By Pat Murphy”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Clap your hands if you believe in death. Believing in fairies is much easier, I think. Death is an end, an emptiness, a darkness. People want to believe in the light. Go to the light, they say. We fear the darkness and the unknown, the fairies in the ravine, the world behind the mirror.”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Copyright © 2012 by Kathryn Cramer”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Copyright (C) 2012 by Brit Mandelo”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“BRIT MANDELO The Finite Canvas”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Copyright (C) 2012 by Charles Stross”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Copyright (C) 2012 by Michael Swanwick”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Copyright (C) 2012 by Rachel Swirsky”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition

“Dormanna Gene Wolfe”
― Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2012 edition