C.S.E. Cooney > Quotes

“My heart was on the verge, if not of explosion than of collapse, hurtling to an inward oblivion, sucking down with it the very ground I stood on.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, Bone Swans: Stories

“But if Desdemona knew one thing, it was this: if misery loves company, malice adores it.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, Tor.com Publishing 2019 Debut Sampler

“The angel Alizar sometimes looked like a human-shaped paper lantern, or a sudden release of soap bubbles, or a cloud. He glowed on the inside as if he'd swallowed a hive of horny fireflies, and on the outside, he looked as if a toddler with a glue gun had gone wild with the craft buckets containing outrageous feathers, and twining golden vines, and trumpet-like flowers, and thin, prismatic insect wings.

Alizar also had the ability to spontaneously produce eyeballs whenever and wherever he fancied, though I'd never seen him sport more than eleven at a time, hence his name.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, The Twice-Drowned Saint

“Which makes you my landlord. Not being kind, just buttering you up.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, Tor.com Publishing 2019 Debut Sampler

“She did not have a heartbeat, exactly. Not the way he understood a heartbeat. If her enemies opened up her chest, they might find a ruby-throated hummingbird at the center, or a whirlpool inhabited by leviathans, or the moon in all of its phases, or all of this, all at once.”
― C.S.E. Cooney, Dark Breakers