Blood and Iron
Elizabeth Bear
Top 10 Best Quotes
“a friend told me that in a good marriage, nobody wins.” Matthew frowned, nibbling his thumbnail, noticing she’d sidestepped his question about the wards quite neatly. “I’m not sure I understand what you mean.” “A marriage is a state of dynamic tension. It works as long as nobody gets the upper hand and keeps it.” She”
“All that power they’d squirreled away had needed to be released, focused, channeled.”
“All iron comes from stars,” Seeker replied, her hand still not quite brushing the hilt of the blade. “It’s the last element they can burn before they go nova. Iron’s the skeletons of stars, and it’s what makes our blood red. I”
“Your mother yet lives, Elaine. A dutiful daughter would visit her.”
“Your brother had lovely patterns from his shoulders to his thighs. Very black, on so much white, white ski. Do you have marks like that?” “I wouldn’t show you if I did,” Matthew said softly through the rage that wanted to take the bit and run. “Give me back that child.”
“You have power, lady, and that power is of interest to my Queen. As it is to the one who holds my esteemed counterpart’s leash.”
“You have had many lovers, it seems.” “I have many liasons,” the Elf-knight answered, unflinchingly. “I have one lover.”
“You change in my arms and change again, and all I can do is hold you.”
“Wolves don’t live long, who walk heedlessly into a moonlit field. Even one that amounts to their backyard.”
“White horses are a symbol of death, as well you know. And is half your fault, I suspect.”
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