The Stone in the Skull Quotes

“So it is with all beauty,” she said cheerfully. “Every glory also shits.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Stone in the Skull

“How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk? If it is safe?”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Stone in the Skull

“He tried to feel the meaning of the words, speak them with passion nonetheless. If this was what he was inspired to, then he would not believe he had been inspired wrong. And it wrong to simply intone the Scholar-God’s arguments. They must be…internalized. Considered. Spoken as if they lived and breathed and were each day argued anew, not as if they lay dead and dusty in some tomb.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Stone in the Skull