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61 " 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 , A Meeting at Corvallis (Emberverse, #3)
62 " 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 , The Golden Princess (Emberverse, #11)
63 " like biting down on copper foil. "
― S.M. Stirling , The Sword of the Lady (Emberverse, #6)
64 " 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 , The High King of Montival (Emberverse, #7)
65 " How have I survived uncorrupted this long, surrounded by oil-tongued flatterers like you, "
― S.M. Stirling , The Sky-Blue Wolves (Emberverse #15)
66 " 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 , The Given Sacrifice (Emberverse, #10)
67 " dropped the idea of writing professionally and focused on earning a living. I’m fairly sure that was the wrong decision. "
― S.M. Stirling , The Change
68 " necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times. "
69 " 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. "
70 " 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! "
71 " being crazy is a job qualification. "
72 " What was it Da said? Órlaith thought grimly. Yes, that it’s a great pity that fighting evil starts with killing evil’s conscripted farmers. "
73 " Children do make life more interesting, he thought. "
― S.M. Stirling , The Sunrise Lands (Emberverse, #4)
74 " I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity? Are we sure it is desirable for a man's spirit not to be at war with itself, or that it is better to be serene and ready to go to dinner than to be excited and unwilling to stop for a cup of coffee, even? "
― S.M. Stirling , The Reformer (The General, #7)
75 " something "
― S.M. Stirling , Island in the Sea of Time (Nantucket, #1)
76 " There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot. "
― S.M. Stirling
77 " And the first king was a lucky soldier. "
― S.M. Stirling , Dies the Fire (Emberverse, #1)
78 " Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it? "
79 " Sandra was fond of an old Russian saying: When a man causes you a problem, remember: no man, no problem. "
80 " Likes to fight, does he?" Sandra said thoughtfully."Oh, yeah. He says there are only two reasons to fight." "Which are?""Joy and death."Her mother's brows went up. "Joy in death?""No, no... For joy, to stretch yourself with a friend; or death, to kill as quickly as you can. Nothing in between. "