Deriving Life Quotes

“It’s my life to spend as I please, isn’t it?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“Don’t I get to be broken about this? The worst thing that’s ever happened to me?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“I didn’t have enough outside supports. And I’ve eroded the ones I did have by being so broken about Tamar dying.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“I can never go back,” I tell her. “I can only go forward from here.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“Changing yourself to be what someone else wants won’t heal you, Marq.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“If the Big Melt taught us anything, as a species, it taught us the relentless ethics of accountability.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“We love you, the cancer says. We will always love you.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“Sometimes a hug and a cookie might now mean more than a grand gesture at some indeterminate point in the future.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“Nobody, it turns out, can handle the depth of what I’m feeling about losing Tamar. Not Tamar, not Robin.

Not me.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“We take them on; they make us happy. Give us purpose. Resolve our existential angst.”

“Devour us inside out.”

I laugh. “What doesn’t?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“Impossibility doesn’t make the wanting go away.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“No matter what choice you make, you’re going to regret it sometime.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“I don’t know if I exist outside your perception of me. I liked the me you were seeing. I never liked myself before. And now you’re gone. So who am I?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“I felt awful and I did an awful thing.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“The hope is gone before it has finished deceiving me. Gone so fast I haven’t yet finished inhaling to gasp in relief when my diaphragm cramps and seizes and I cannot breathe at all.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“Hope may be the thing with feathers. It is also the cruelest pain of all.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“I stand up, and suddenly standing is easy. I’m light; I’m full of energy. Awareness.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life

“No point in trying to sleep more, although I want to seek that peace so fiercely the desire aches inside me.

There are other paths to peace.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Deriving Life