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Quotes from Elf Defense — Esther Friesner

born 1951 United States

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9 quotes

Fools are always at the bottom of the food chain.

Elf Defense (1988)

That is the real paradox you mortals pose: the faith in love you sometimes keep for no reason anyone can see.

Elf Defense (1988)

Parricide can be hard to explain to the neighbors.

Elf Defense (1988)

Only a corpse could have sounded more bored.

Elf Defense (1988)

They’re never going to agree on one damned thing. You can’t make reasonable human beings out of committee members.

Elf Defense (1988)

Anything sounds legitimate in Latin.

Elf Defense (1988)

“You mean…I’m not a coward after all?”
“Rest easy. You’re just a neurotic like the rest of us.”

Elf Defense (1988)

And the things mortals have taught me! They hate in the name of a god of love! They make war in the name of peace! They fancy themselves in the lords of creation because they are able to destroy it all!

Elf Defense (1988)

Even his tie—that most treacherous of sartorial shoals, that scrap of fabric upon which many an otherwise sane man lavishes the worst lunacies of misguided self-expression and is thereby wrecked, fashionably speaking—even that was a demure navy-and-burgundy silk rep, with a faint stripe of yellow as discreet as the finest assassin.

Elf Defense (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Esther Friesner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.