Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.
Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Miles added it to his life’s lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
Not that I haven’t leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It’s sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.
The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
Too late, he recalled Miles’s dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
Hi, I’m a hero, but I can’t tell you why. It’s classified.
The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
I’m very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they’ll be called on to do before the next chance.