Top 8 Aliette De Bodard Quotes
#1. When I read 'Dream of Red Mansions,' I was really struck by the fact that it was built differently from a lot of genre works. Specifically, a lot of the events that should have taken centre-stage - wars, social upheavals - were seen entirely through the eyes of the women of a Chinese household.
Aliette De Bodard
#2. Nothing, until the ground comes up to meet you, and you land in a jumble of pain and shattered bones; and the scream you didn't think you had in you scrapes your throat raw as you let it out - like the first, shocked breath of a baby newly born into a universe of suffering.
Aliette De Bodard
#3. It certainly seems as though a great majority of genre is conflict-focused and, not only that, but focused on large physical conflicts.
Aliette De Bodard
#4. I still couldn't banish the image of the Quetzal Flower. In my mind, it merged with that of Priestess Eleuia: everything a man could desire or aspire to, a woman who would suck the marrow from your bones and still leave you smiling.
Aliette De Bodard
#5. you feel like a field of sugar canes after the harvest - burnt out, all cutting edges with no sweetness left inside.
Aliette De Bodard
#6. All the heads of Houses looked like tigers who'd just caught prey - which boded ill for Silverspires.
Aliette De Bodard
#7. You leave behind your fine poems.
You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into the Light, O Quechomitl, you leave behind the flowers and the singing and the earth. Safe journey, O friend.
Aliette De Bodard
#8. A man of no religion, who dares use pain as a weapon, tainting it for mundane things
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