Harry Turtledove Quotes

born 1949 United States

Harry Norman Turtledove (born 14 June 1949) is an American novelist, best known for his works in several genres, including that of alternate history, historical fiction, fantasy, and science fiction.

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Also known as: Turtledove, Harry

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Early summer in Nashville made a good practice ground for hell.

Southern Victory (1997)

Nobody was supposed to shoot at people wearing Red Cross armbands, but bullets, as he’d learned too well, weren’t fussy about whom they hit.

Southern Victory (1997)

Salt Lake City wasn’t hell, but you could see it from there.

Southern Victory (1997)

I am not especially wise, but I am especially stubborn.

Agent of Byzantium (1987)

They wouldn’t understand no matter what, any more than they would understand what life in the trenches was like. Experience brought understanding. Nothing else came close.

Southern Victory (1997)

There’s no such thing as glory, near as I can tell. If the machine guns didn’t kill it, the artillery did.

Southern Victory (1997)

Then he laughed at himself. If Fort Benton counted for civilization, he’d been out in the wilderness too long.

Southern Victory (1997)

Cincinnatus Driver hadn’t been under fire for more than twenty-five years. He’d forgotten how much fun it wasn’t.

Southern Victory (1997)

He sees the country going forward. He doesn’t see the suffering he’s creating to make it go in the direction he wants.

Southern Victory (1997)

He could speak clear English when he wanted to. Why didn’t he want to more often?

Southern Victory (1997)

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it. Its glory is all moonshine.

Southern Victory (1997)

If you call a thing by a name that doesn't seem so repellent, then the thing itself also becomes less repellent. Sympathetic magic—except it wasn't sympathetic to those who fell victim to it.

Southern Victory (1997)

Ulric Skakki’s smile was so charming, it made Hamnet distrust him on sight—as if he didn’t already.

Opening of the World (2007)

He didn’t care what she thought, and, in not caring, he felt as if a curse were lifted from his back.

Opening of the World (2007)

But, as often happened, the official and the real had only a nodding acquaintance with each other.

Southern Victory (1997)

There was, he remembered, far more to love than what went on in bed, but that had its place too.

Agent of Byzantium (1987)

As riots have a way of doing, this one was rapidly outgrowing the incident that had spawned it.

Agent of Byzantium (1987)

Anyone who used a word like obstructions in a sentence was bound to have other things wrong with him, too.

Southern Victory (1997)

In war, proving the other guy was wrong often meant proving he had no business breathing.

Southern Victory (1997)

Well, what was life but the difference between what you planned and what you got?

Southern Victory (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harry Turtledove (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.