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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 39690f7 | Torin had never been a great believer in luck, preferring to trust in training, preparation, and strong artillery support, but it was impossible to deny the good fortune that had caused them to crash precisely where they had. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 2aa6bbb | although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales. | Tanya Huff | ||
| c164bb7 | Is this what it's like all the time?" Being covered in someone else's blood trying to juryrig a solution before artillery blows us to hell? The silent corollary was almost louder than the actual question. Torin raised an eyebrow and snorted. "Of course not. Sometimes it gets exciting." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 778d9e7 | Please," Torin grinned. "Tech's a crutch. An unarmed Marine in underwear can deal with anything the universe can dish out." "Vacuum?" "For that, we'd also need boots." "So we can die with them on?" "Pretty much." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 783815a | Old soldier's trick, sir. Sleep when you can." "You're not sleeping, Staff." "Staff sergeants never sleep, sir." "Ever vigilant?" "You've been reading the brochure." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 1d5c5d3 | Holy fuk." Lieutenant Jarret snorted. "Private Checya, I think you've just expressed the official reaction." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 3f9ff16 | We've only been here a few hours, and we spent most of that time playing toy soldiers. How did the sergeant find that stuff out so fast?" Hollice shrugged. "It's a gift. Let's just hope he never uses it for evil." | Tanya Huff | ||
| b3b984d | don't mind admitting I'd feel better if I was just a little more mobile and about thirty thousand feet up." "Look at the bright side, sir. If you get shot down here, it'll hurt a lot less when you hit the ground." After a startled moment, he found a smile. "Thank you, Staff Sergeant." "You're welcome, sir." | Tanya Huff | ||
| ab8dba7 | Five adults, a Leprechaun, a Dragon Prince, and two toddlers required a lot of French toast, but with Allie on one grill and Katie on the other, Graham beating the eggs, Charlie pouring juice, Auntie Gwen setting the table, Joe dealing with the coffee maker, and Jack watching the twins, breakfast got made. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 6310a67 | this situation was tailor-made for that last lesson in Combat Morale, "If you're going to die anyway, see to it that your people die with dry underwear and a smile." -- | Tanya Huff | ||
| 6905464 | You are here." Torin would have bet her pension that the graffiti scrawled next to it in a script she didn't recognize said, "And your luggage is in Antares," or a variation thereof." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 25cd6db | We are using these to follow the Others home. We are maybe using these to end the war." "We are maybe using these to die in a new and exciting way." | Tanya Huff | ||
| bfe78ef | Going to tell us why you think so, Gunny?" "I expect the belief is based on years and years of experience combined with a number of subliminal clues that I'm not consciously aware of." "Gut feeling?" Mike asked in the stunned silence that followed her declaration. "Pretty much, yeah." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 1b41555 | Sometimes the gods smile," he grunted. "Yes, sir." And sometimes they kick you over and stomp you flat." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 850eadb | Mind you," he continued, "with this particular high ground what's likely to be said is, 'Help, I'm falling." | Tanya Huff | ||
| fdb645d | You make it sound so simple." "Well, it's war; it's not rocket science." Then the memory of what had once been accomplished by three Marines with a surface-to-air missile launcher, a game chip, and the guts from a field kitchen twisted her mouth into a grin. "Usually," she repeated." | Tanya Huff | ||
| d9ffa88 | You lot are luckier than you deserve to be, and if you ever again put me in the position where I've got to kiss up to an officer--any officer--to save your sorry butts, I am going to make your lives so goddamned miserable you're going to beg to be dropped into the front lines stark naked and armed with a sponge just to get away from me. Do I make myself clear? | Tanya Huff | ||
| 51ab420 | Discretion doesn't really apply to giant, flying, fire-breathing lizards who very nearly removed my fucking eyebrows, | Tanya Huff | ||
| ee77fe5 | Allie accepted it as her due that the plane had been overbooked and they were bumping her to first class. Or business class. Or whatever they were now calling those seats an adult could actually fit into. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 6f0cd77 | Charlie considered showing up in time for dinner to be quite domestic enough, thanks very much. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 2a28cc5 | Which means," he continued, removing his arm and turning to the CSO, "you won't freeze or asphyxiate before they blow you up." | Tanya Huff | ||
| eac95a1 | Wishing she could spare a mouthful of water, she looked down at the body. "We will not forget. We will not fail you." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 7319d9d | You know, if you'd say, 'Don't go,' then I could say something like, 'A man has to do what a man has to do,' and leave a hero." "Or there's always that retina on a stick option." "I might have known she'd get all mushy on me," | Tanya Huff | ||
| 0e3e7b3 | If anyone asked, they were home schooling Jack, which had the added benefit of being the truth, even if lessons tended toward it's a bus, you can't fight it rather than algebra. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 987fbeb | It'll be okay." Torin pulled the reporter's attention back to her. "We do this for a living." "I are not wanting to die." "Well, I are not intending to." | Tanya Huff | ||
| ab2c035 | The Corps has always believed that the most powerful weapon its people possesses is between their ears. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 9b06fc9 | Charlie. "Never underestimate the power of abs so defined you can open a Corona on them." | Tanya Huff | ||
| 859ef99 | A Dragon Prince with emo hair and daddy issues. Her life had become Manga. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 41337a1 | Little girls reacted to weakness like wolves - which was not particularly fair to wolves, who were, on the whole, noble creatures. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 231f46b | anthologies like Accessing the Future (gathering together voices of disabled people to create SF tales of disability), The Sum of Us (an anthology complicating ideas of care and caregiving), Alison Sinclair's Darkborn series (presenting the social changes that would occur in a world where half the population is blind), Tanya Huff's novel Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light (which features a protagonist with an intellectual disability who resi.. | Lynne M. Thomas | ||
| 30e5076 | Not everyone can be equal in wealth, but no one should have to starve. | Tanya Huff | ||
| c85c2cc | Because you told me once that the difference between a columnist and a reporter is that the columnist has the luxury to not only ask why but to try and answer it. | Tanya Huff | ||
| dae628b | Sometimes we win with greater firepower, through sheer numbers or more powerful weapons, but for the most part it's knowledge that defines our victories. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 81397a8 | Old ladies in the Gale family drove like they owned the roads. And the other drivers. And the local police department. And the laws of physics. | magic | Tanya Huff | |
| 9dc44cd | the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin depends entirely on the dance. | dance | Tanya Huff | |
| 8ebb8c9 | If she does call, would you please explain to her that turning the sofa into a pygmy hippo for the afternoon might be very good transfiguration, but it's rather hard on the carpets and it confuses the hippo. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 9e96666 | Civilians had a tendency to fetishize military dead without ever considering how and why they died. | Tanya Huff | ||
| 5ac9ed1 | he doubted the Americans would lend out either Jeremy Renner or their giant robots to get into a freezer. | Tanya Huff | ||
| ed1be25 | I would like to discuss the psychological determinates in your use of copulative profanity. | Tanya Huff | ||
| cfa92ee | Like Tracy Chevalier, Burton is skilled at evoking place . . . Wonderful' Guardian | Jessie Burton | ||
| 49a6ed0 | He could not tell all of the California pines apart, the gray pine from the coulter, the bushop from the knobcone and the Monterey. | trees | Tracy Chevalier | |
| 8233dfa | Twenty-first-century attitudes towards time and our expectations of story are very different from the shape of Mary Anning's life. She spent day after day, year after year, doing the same thing on the beach. I have taken the events of her life and condensed them to fit into a narrative that is not stretched beyond the reader's patience. Hence events, while in order, do not always coincide exactly with actual dates and time spans. Plus, of c.. | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 211a437 | His parting would have been solemn but we were too busy to think much of it. We were weaving fourteen hours a day then, with hardly a moment for meals, and I was dizzy with the pattern of the tapestry in front of me even when I wasn't weaving. I fell into bed each night and slept without moving until Madeleine woke me in the morning. There was little time left to think about a man's departure. The night before Nicolas went the | Tracy Chevalier | ||
| 4d01619 | Molly was up now, sitting in the kitchen nursing the babies and instructing Mrs. Bienenstock on how to make biscuits. "Don't pound the dough, Dody!" Molly was crying with laughter. "You want to end up crackin' your teeth on 'em? Pat it gentle like it's a baby. That's better." Robert had only ever seen his landlady make coffee and eggs, and he did not think she would take kindly to being taught. But Mrs. B. seemed willing; she was smoothing .. | Tracy Chevalier |