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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| edcddab | I really know the implications, and you don't. We're not talking about a better breed of catapults or . . . or D&D hit levels. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 0d9ada5 | It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| e3319b8 | the Covenstead at the center of the town . . . no, the Saints called it a Meeting House. The center was a big hall lit by clerestory windows around the edge where the bright light of dawn showed. One half was full of pews, the second--oddly--equipped with basketball hoops and a recessed | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 23e34cd | We climbed the Sea-End Tower in the lost city of Toronto as the High King and his comrades did on the Quest. It's still standing, our lake-boat touched there on our way east, | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 54a2ee7 | ''And yet half a beast is the great God Pan To laugh as he sits by the river; Making a legend out of a man. The true Gods weep for the loss and the pain For the reed that will never grow again As a reed, with the reeds, by the river.'' | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 0c72538 | from that valley near the Tetons, over past the Wind River | S.M. Stirling | ||
| b08258c | ''May you leave without returning and fall without rising, addressed to the lovely darlin' man himself. The which is perhaps a little too close to a curse for comfort, but sometimes things need to be said.'' | S.M. Stirling | ||
| de86da9 | They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 4bcd53c | His grandmother had said to him once, smiling slightly, that if you compelled people to behave as if they believed something eventually all but the strongest-willed really did start to believe it, because it was easier on their pride than admitting every moment in the privacy of their soul that they were pretending. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 4e4df92 | pedal cars, so it went quickly. I was at my Order's new chapter house on our mission farm at Drumheller, and I carried it on snowshoes and skis over the mountain passes and down to Barony Vernon in the Okanogan country. Then by horse and rail to the Columbia and Portland. I came all the way myself rather than handing | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 0a70aa9 | Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people | leadership organization self-esteem | S.M. Stirling | |
| 97e57dd | Raptors like these falcons were solitary by nature; they didn't even like each other except in the mating season, much less humans. All you could teach them was that doing what humans wanted would get them more of what they wanted, which was to kill, eat, mate and sleep. | S. M. Stirling | ||
| 5f75c4a | You can't make a falcon love you, but you can convince its little bird brain that sitting on your glove means a full croup." "Unless it's a Harris Hawk." | S. M. Stirling | ||
| 4a238e8 | Even God knew mortality and change when He became flesh in this fallen world, and we must remain supple before time's gales. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 35858c1 | Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward, | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 67ad47b | Lay on, MacDuff Lay on with the soup, and the Haggis and stuff; For though 'tis said you are our foe What side my bread's buttered on you bet I know! | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 4ba53b7 | the swift daring strength of his youth and the steady hand of his ripe manhood we have had, but the wisdom of his deep age is taken from us and that we will never have, spilled with the blood he shed for us! Mourn, then, mourn! For he is lost and gone and we will send him to the sky and the earth and the sea. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| adf923f | like biting down on copper foil. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| f303c3c | He wasn't afraid a pipe now and then would kill him. As far as he could tell, a lot of the old Americans had been quivering daisies who thought they'd live forever if only they were careful enough, as if life was worth living that way. Some of them had believed eating butter was bad for you, of all things. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 318a6d9 | the only | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 4ff554e | How have I survived uncorrupted this long, surrounded by oil-tongued flatterers like you, | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 58a48b1 | Be as you wish to seem, an ancient had said. It was good advice. Because acting brave and being so are very much the same thing. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| d999705 | dropped the idea of writing professionally and focused on earning a living. I'm fairly sure that was the wrong decision. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| ea0d0a5 | necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times. | S. M. Stirling | ||
| 242ce86 | O God, You know me to be set in the midst of great peril. Grant me such strength of mind and body, that those evils which I suffer for my sins I may overcome through Thy assistance. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. | S. M. Stirling | ||
| f51f445 | The story never ends, but our part in the tale does, for a while, and I'm in the mood for some happy-ever-aftering! We earned it, as the Gods themselves know! | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 800dbcd | being crazy is a job qualification. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| f4db6f5 | What was it Da said? Orlaith thought grimly. Yes, that it's a great pity that fighting evil starts with killing evil's conscripted farmers. | S.M. Stirling | ||
| 9ac41a8 | I am too young to live through ten thousand years of darkness! | Apocalypse | ||
| b6b9cb3 | She had had to learn that, although it was her nature to seethe, she must seethe discreetly. Unlike the average Pernese, dragonriders were apt to perceive strong emotional auras. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| c4d516e | Lessa lay in the straw of the redolent cheeseroom she shared as sleeping quarters with the other kitchen drudges. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| dd99e5d | In the twenty years since her first voyage, Fleet had not been able to assure the safety of the younger and more remote colonies; as well, planets cleared for colonization by one group were too often found to have someone else--legally now the owners--in place when the colonists | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| b75a5a2 | The apocalypse is the way the world looks after the ego has disappeared. | Apocalypse | ||
| 7a62d37 | Make yourself known as a philosopher, that is a free man. | Apollonius of Tyana | ||
| 5a24461 | arrived. Although human slavery was technically illegal, colonies were being raided for slaves--and that meant a market somewhere. "Normal" humans blamed heavyworlders; heavyworlders blamed the "lightweights" as they called them, and the wealthy mercantile families of the inner worlds complained bitterly about the cost of supporting an ever-growing Fleet which didn't seem to save either lives or property." -- | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| e26fd8e | What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic!" Master" | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 9200e9c | Children's voices - even those who couldn't carry the tune - are always appealing. | music | Anne McCaffrey | |
| 91a919b | teeth. It was her offering which Aivas was rejecting. 'Of course,' and she brightened, 'we could keep some around to study and learn from, couldn't we?' She saw the horror and disgust of some of her colleagues. 'No, I guess we couldn't. Ah, well, back to microscope. My 98th batch of trials today. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 6c103cc | It became a requirement of those in hazardous professions, or those with highly desirable dominant characteristics of intelligence or physical perfection, to donate sperm and ova to what became known as the Race Conservation Agency. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| bca3513 | but she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 139ee7f | Lessa was Ramoth's and Ramoth was hers, mind and heart, irrevocably attuned. Only death could dissolve that incredible bond. | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| 98405db | La experiencia real es el conocimiento | Anne McCaffrey | ||
| f479bd7 | Series Order Kresley Cole's Series Order Dale Brown's Series Order Lee Child's Series Order Daniel Silva's Series Order Lisa Jackson's Series Order David Baldacci's | Listastik | ||
| 1044473 | But Lord Raid and Lord Sifer had an unpleasant habit of reminding Benden Weyr riders of their loyalty at every opportunity. Gratitude is an ill-fitting tunic that can chafe and smell if worn too long. Lord | Anne McCaffrey |