Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition Quotes

“When he arrived, he found that this was true. New York was no less impressive for being mostly fictional. Of course, the place was lousy with writers.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“Sometimes the truth, told right, was the best lie.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“The greenhouse—distant cousin, Ida, reportedly something of a botanist. The bed where we conceived Lily: Great-great-great-great-Aunt Minerva. Aunt Augustine’s dish set isn’t just an heirloom—it really is Aunt Augustine.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“She is covered in sand, only on her right side. There are no clouds. She is alone. Seonag is used to being alone, even when she is surrounded by people.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“Lindy-hop could go back to being just a social thing. But where she belonged in life After the Meteor, was here. Here, she made a difference. Sprained ankle and all.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“I heard that, too. Nope. I’m an animal behaviorist. Here to assess recent changes in communication patterns. You in whale processing?”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“The tactic seemed to work, so he stuck to the same theme for the next few days, but there was only so much cryptography he could teach before it started squeezing out everything else.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“Jeoffry lays back his ears and continues to creep, as the Moppet showed him. she had said, ”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“There are multiple claims to Mr. Smart.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“He understands, also, that this offer represents a fundamentally wrong order to the universe. You should bow down and worship Jeoffry! “Right,” the devil says. “I thought as much.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“Only more cat-shaped. (Jeoffry, a poet’s cat, has ignored vast amounts of Milton over the years, but some of it has apparently stuck.)”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“That night, he kept activating the readout from his chip on the mobile’s login screen: Enfranchised.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition

“tube itself was fighting her in ways that it wouldn’t in space. Ruby was so used to not complaining, because she was short. Because she was a woman. Anything she said would be seen as a failure on her part. But the resistance was an NBLism and not a problem the actual spacewalker would face, and people’s lives were on the line.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Some of the Best from Tor.com, 2019 edition