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Peacetime, though, felt like summertime. Even as you enjoyed it, you knew it wouldn’t last.
Southern Victory (1997)
She was willing to give her life for her country. She wasn’t willing to throw it away.
Southern Victory (1997)
He trusted Mormons no farther than he could throw them. They were as sneaky a bunch of bastards as you could imagine.
Southern Victory (1997)
A wise husband didn’t quarrel even when he was right. Quarreling when you knew you were wrong was a recipe for disaster.
Southern Victory (1997)
Maybe not thinking about the price of failure was what marked a hero. On the other hand, maybe it just marked a damn fool.
Southern Victory (1997)
He realized, belatedly, that he had been less than diplomatic. That did not bother him, either: he was less than diplomatic.
Southern Victory (1997)
You have to understand what you’re fighting for. Otherwise, you were an animal—a brave animal, maybe, but an animal all the same.
Southern Victory (1997)
The exec usually did Captain Stein's dirty work for him. The skipper got the credit, the exec got the blame: an ancient Navy rule.
Southern Victory (1997)
Was that savage cynicism or sage common sense? When it came to gauging the chances of peace and war, how much difference was there?
Southern Victory (1997)
Anne saw his attention focus on her. It still wasn’t the look a man gave an attractive woman: more like the look a sniper gave a target.
Southern Victory (1997)
Himmler steepled his fingers. "Well, Reinhard, what brings you up from Prague today?" His voice was fussy and precise, like a schoolmaster's.
The Man With the Iron Heart (2008)
Second Lieutenant Don Griffiths was typical of the breed. He was young, he didn’t know much, and one of the things he didn’t know was how much he didn’t know.
Southern Victory (1997)
Potter knew perfectly well that it was true. He also knew that what was true and what made good propaganda often had not even a nodding acquaintance with each other.
Southern Victory (1997)
Manicheism, n., The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians joined the victorious Opposition.
Southern Victory (1997)
Nothing the government touches ever ends up looking just the way you thought it would before you started—you need to understand that right from the beginning, or else you start going crazy.
Southern Victory (1997)
Reverend Selfe glowered. He was good at glowering. His physiognomy gave him a head start, but he had talent, too.
Southern Victory (1997)
When war reached out its hand, what did wealth and power matter? A fool with a gun could take them away. A fool with a gun had just taken them away.
Southern Victory (1997)
“I see that this photograph shows me you have been imperfectly truthful here,” he told them, having been too well brought up to call a woman a liar to her face.
Southern Victory (1997)
Where there’s a will, there’s a lawyer.
Southern Victory (1997)
“And do you know of opossums? Have they come this far north?”
“I have seen one or two.” Sarus made a face. “Horrible things, like big rats with pointed faces.”
Opening of the World (2007)