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When you were fifteen, you knew everything always turned out fine in the end. Arthur McGregor was a good deal past twice fifteen. He knew how foolish you were at that age.
Southern Victory (1997)
Chester wasn’t about to commit the sin of optimism. Justifiably or not, he feared it would jinx everything.
Southern Victory (1997)
People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.
Atlantis (series) (2007)
Down underneath, there wasn’t much difference between people and animals. War brought that out all kinds of ways.
Southern Victory (1997)
The featured entrée with something called Swiss steak. It struck him as a good reason for emigrating from Switzerland.
Southern Victory (1997)
Of all the sins in this world, which is more unforgivable than the sin of not having enough money? None I can think of.
Southern Victory (1997)
When three men plot, one is a fool and two are government spies.
Southern Victory (1997)
What people believed often turned out to be true just because they believed it. Charlatans and mages were quick to take advantage of that.
Opening of the World (2007)
Some people had a vested interest in trouble. If it looked as if calm threatened to break out, people like that would do anything they could to thwart it.
Southern Victory (1997)
“Did anybody know what a nasty war this would be before they went and started it?”
“Does anybody ever?”
Southern Victory (1997)
Down near the Florida border, Georgia could give South Carolina lessons in heat and humidity.
Southern Victory (1997)
Liv worried less about how important other people thought she was and more about things that really mattered.
Opening of the World (2007)
The North American air war struck Potter as a duel with machine guns at a pace and a half.
Southern Victory (1997)
The difference between what you counted on and what you got explained why so many people had unhappy marriages.
Southern Victory (1997)
They weren't entering a different country, but they were coming into a different world.
Southern Victory (1997)
Like other lower forms of life, second lieutenants were too dumb to know better.
Southern Victory (1997)
Spend all your time thinkin’ ’bout tomorrow, you ain’t gonna live to git there.
Southern Victory (1997)
Getting men to give officers the respect their rank deserved was a battle the army hadn’t won yet and wouldn’t anytime soon.
Southern Victory (1997)
If you started thinking the whole world was like the part of it where you lived, you were going to be wrong a lot of the time.
Southern Victory (1997)
A man of strong opinions but limited vocabulary, O’Doull thought.
Southern Victory (1997)