“ Grief is the tribute we pay the dead, she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. But they don't ask more than we can afford to give. They've never really gone from us, you know, those we love; th… S.M. Stirling
“ Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward, S.M. Stirling
“ Dropped the idea of writing professionally and focused on earning a living. I’m fairly sure that was the wrong decision. S.M. Stirling
“ 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
“ Sandra nodded. Agreed. A…oh, God, let’s not call it a United Nations, shall we? That would doom things from the start. S.M. Stirling
“ 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… S.M. Stirling
“ Black soil flew up in divots; the horses’ heads pounded up and down like pistons, and he felt a sensation of rushing speed no machine could quite match as the great muscles flexed and bunched between… S.M. Stirling
“ Referring to an obsession with Tolkien's Middle Earth): I meet a beautiful American heiress, I like her, she likes me . . . and then she turns out to be a fundamentalist with a more literal interpreta… S.M. Stirling
“ 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… S.M. Stirling
“ Mackenzies buried a rapist at a crossroads, with a spear thrust in the soil above; and they buried him living when they could, as a sacrifice to turn aside the anger of the Earth Powers. S.M. Stirling
“ It wasn’t taking the trip well; cats seldom did, being little furry Republicans with an in-built aversion to change. S.M. Stirling
“ 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… S.M. Stirling
“ And he kills without fear, or anger, or hate, with regret even, simply because its necessary. That's rare, and it's rare still among the really first-rate. God help the enemy that finally frightens hi… S.M. Stirling
“ By... earth, he said, more a movement of the lips than a thing of the throat and air. By... sky...Another breath, and it did hurt a little now. The next was harder. The women leaned over him, the moth… S.M. Stirling
“ Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people of killing each other than it? S.M. Stirling
“ 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 al… S.M. Stirling
“ ″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 s… S.M. Stirling
