There could be no compromise with those who rejected one’s own beliefs, for compromise and coexistence only opened the door to schism. A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its...
The message she'd just ordered Webster to send and Venizelos to relay to Manticore was never sent in drills, not even in the most intense or realistic Fleet maneuvers. Case Zulu had one meaning, and o...
The marvelous intricacy of the rules they’d established, the processes they’d set into motion, the miracles of subtlety and beauty, were enough to make anyone drunk with admiration and awe, and how co...
She was thirteen T-years older than he, but there was something uncannily familiar about his emotions where she was concerned. Somehow, without realizing it was happening, she'd acquired a MacGuiness...
Oh, hell, Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. I really blew it, didn't I?Don't be silly, Berry scolded. It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he...
Never keep a lawyer waiting. They have friends in low and infernal places.
Mother’s casting hungry looks at my exec again, she complained. Not to worry, her father replied. She looks a lot, but she’s never had any reason to roam. You’re as bad as she is!
Jesus, look at that idiot! Waters' exec muttered, and the citizen captain shook his head in disgust. Having
I am an officer of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Sir— Venizelos felt an undeniable rush of adrenaline and pleasure as he faced the burly captain squarely —and the Royal Manticoran Navy does not 'bluff.
Extremists tend to grow more extreme, not less, as problems get closer to solutions,
Cathy smiled back ‘Rules were meant to be broken.’‘Don’t disagree,’ Oversteegen replied immediately. ‘Indeed they are. Providin’, however, that the one breakin’ the rules is willin’ t’ pay the price f...
But Haven had become a threat. After almost two T-centuries of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acqu...
The very first thing that happens with any zealot is that he removes his brain just in case any thoughts that might challenge his zealotry should happen to stray into it.
Sweeping, simplistic solutions to complicated problems are much more appealing than tackling the real thought that might actually solve them.
If I've learned one thing over the years, it's that when it comes down to raw emotion against reason, emotion wins.
Fast courier vessel.
Eyelashes, and the dimples of the devastating smile which was going to get him into all sorts of trouble in another few years danced at the corners of his mouth.
Agreement not to discuss. He never gets tired of comparing one physical artifact to another, Anders went on, even if they all look pretty
Yet i say to you, do not rush to marriage for it is a deep and perfect thing. Test first, that you may be certain you are called to it by love, and not simply by pleasures of the flesh which will cons...
There’s not much point in making logical arguments to someone who’s already decided to ignore inconvenient truths, so