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41 " Every reality that we can make begins with a dream, "
― S.M. Stirling , The Golden Princess (Emberverse, #11)
42 " Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. "
43 " Who dares, wins,” he muttered to himself. “Or gets royally banged about if things go south. "
― S.M. Stirling , The Protector's War (Emberverse, #2)
44 " The knife he held was obsidian, sharp enough to cut a dream. "
― S.M. Stirling , The Scourge of God (Emberverse, #5)
45 " It just took so much effort to get anything done without machinery, particularly since nobody really knew how to do a lot of the necessary things by hand. There were descriptions in books, but they always turned out to be maddeningly incomplete and/or no substitute for the knowledge experience built into your muscles and nerves. "
― S.M. Stirling , Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
46 " We had to become other than we were, or cease to be at all, "
― S.M. Stirling , Against the Tide of Years (Nantucket, #2)
47 " if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it. "
― S.M. Stirling , The Desert and the Blade (Emberverse, #12)
48 " It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then. "
49 " 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 "
50 " 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, "
51 " ″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 , The Sword of the Lady (Emberverse, #6)
52 " from that valley near the Tetons, over past the Wind River "
53 " ″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.″ "
54 " They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In "
55 " 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 , Prince of Outcasts (Emberverse #13)
56 " 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 "
57 " 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. "
58 " 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. "
59 " 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 , The Sunrise Lands (Emberverse, #4)
60 " Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward, "
― S.M. Stirling , A Meeting at Corvallis (Emberverse, #3)