The Red-Stained Wings Quotes

“The Gage held his fury, though it cost him. He turned his back on the Many-Legged Truth. He did not turn to regard it (he did not need to turn to regard it) as its gears and pulleys cranked up before the turning of the wind, and it locked feet released, and it accelerated smoothly, step by step away.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Any day without sounds of looting and pillaging is a good day.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“She had offered herself into another gilded captivity, Sayeh realized.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“She felt as if her soul has been scoured.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“You will change, or you will die.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Everything familiar was made strange.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“She closed her eyes briefly, trying to savor the memory, the childish belief that a parent could fix the most terrible circumstances.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Helplessness, the state of accepting that one is a victim, is not learned, my rajni. It’s taught. And the course of instruction is written in powerlessness, in kicks and blows. In dismissals. It is taught in the language of being unable to protect the things and people you value from violence. It is written with the pen of denigration upon the paper of desperation.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Mrithuri wondered how haggard she must look that the vivacious young noblewoman was making a point of standing back and leaving her alone.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“A drape would have shown the bandage over her ribs, and in any case she barely had the energy to stand, and her whole body shuddered with cold and the craving for her venom.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“I’m afraid we have come as emissaries of your enemy. No one is likely to be glad to see us for long.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“I want you because you see me as a person. I want you because I look at you and for the first time I see a chance at a life that feels like living, not just like performing a series of chores.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“It was easier to talk if she pretended she was speaking into darkness.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“She wanted her snakes. She wanted her snakes, and she did not want to see Chaeri.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“You keep an army to defend yourself from your ally.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“When the only reason you have to feel good about yourself is your ingrained prejudices about your own innate superiority over another type of person, you will violently attack anything that threatens that bias.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Himadra shook his head. Gently, as he did everything. So as not to strain his bones.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“People were easier to manage if you had gotten the wind out of their sails.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“An army was an expensive, destructive pet”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Tented hide stretched over giant bones surrounded him.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“All flesh was so frail.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Deserts are not without life, and terrible though it was, this was no different.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“The sky was black at first, dusted with those lonely distant stars, deep as a well and so full of echoes. He followed the Dragon Road into smoother terrain, though no less blasted.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“The burned earth glowed at night.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“No flesh could sustain itself in this place.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“A crackling glaze of bubbled green lay over the wasted soil, snapping under his every step. He knew he must be getting close to the poisoned city of dead dragons.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Pretty soon nobody would be able to remember what had really happened, because the poetry would have gotten in the way.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“What she had would be enough. It would have to be enough, because it was all she had.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“Sometimes I forget that not everybody is a dragon.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings

“The birds answer to her. So, for the time being, do I.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The Red-Stained Wings