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Age had not yet defeated her on all fronts, though it was a war of attrition she knew she was fated to lose.

— Elizabeth Bear Bone and Jewel Creatures (2010)

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We claim the dignity of age, she thought, but the truth is, age leaves us without any dignity at all.

Bone and Jewel Creatures (2010)

He wouldn’t be much of a diplomat if he couldn’t lie with a straight face.

Carnival (2006)

While it is true that notoriety offers certain benefits, it is not by any means confirmed that those benefits compensate for the disadvantages.

Bone and Jewel Creatures (2010)

The world is full of the markers of abandoned empires, from Hadrian’s Wall to the Great Wall of China, from the remnants of the one in Arizona to the remnants of the one in Berlin.

The Hand is Quicker (2014)

Strike two for Utopia. The problem with the damned things always comes when you try to introduce actual people into your philosophical constructs.

Carnival (2006)

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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

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