Hatred is a poison, but anger—good, honestly-come-by anger, the kind that stems from outrage, from the need to protect the weak or lift the fallen or stop the cruel—that’s not poison. That’s strength....
Hamish Alexander-Harrington knew his wife as only two humans who had both been adopted by a pairof mated treecats ever could. He'd seen her deal with joy and with sorrow, with happiness and with fury,...
Eleven men and women, exhausted, battered, and armed with captured weapons, against fifty battle-armored foes desperate to kill them. Every one of those eleven knew exactly what their odds of living t...
All things considered, Her Grace's plan may not have been the single rashest, most foolhardy, do-or-die, all-or-nothing throw of the dice in the history of the Royal Manticoran — or Grayson — Navy. If...
A people or a faith divided against itself became the sum of its weaknesses, not its strengths, and anyone who didn't know that was doomed.
Clearly used captured data and documents, and the handful of broken, scarred human prisoners who’d been recovered from them had been interrogated with a casual, dispassionate brutality that was horrif...
Without love, there can be no true marriage; with love, there can be nothing else.
There are two sides to every dialogue, but if you accept the other side's terms without demanding equal time for your own, then they control the debate and its outcome.
The only problem is, if you tell the yammerheads to shut their gobs, you don’t have real representation anymore. If everyone isn’t free to speak his mind, then, ultimately, no one is, and in the end,...
The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.
She’d headed the terraforming teams, and it was her leadership which had carried the task through to success. She and her people, watched over by Kau-yung’s flagship, TFNS Gulliver, had battled the pl...
People who made the Kingdom better than it dreamed it could be, made it live up to its ideals whether it wanted to or not, because they believed in those ideals and made others believe with them.
People at the apex felt unbridled contempt for the people who spent their lives laboring to support their betters in the style to which they had become accustomed. After all, if those lesser being had...
Na zlomeček věčnosti oběma lodím nic nebránilo ve volné střelbě na protivníka a v tom okamžiku dva různé počítače odstartovaly své palebné plány.Žádný lidský smysl nedokázal postřehnout, co se odehrál...
McKeon: You know Hauptman is going to deny they had anything to do with it [smuggling].Forty-three million in illegal peltries? Of course they will, just as 's captain insists the space fairies must h...
Dying gloriously sounds good in bad historical novels. Speaking for myself, I think doing it in real life when you don't have to is fucking stupid, and it irritates the hell out of me that we don't ap...
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom,’ Massingill quoted. ‘A republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always...
She was never certain how long she wept, and it didn't really matter. It wasn't something to be measured by clocks, cut up into minutes and seconds.
Nothing in the universe had a shorter half-life than a politician's memory for inconvenient facts,
It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.