A Meeting at Corvallis Quotes

“Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?”
― S.M. Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis

“There may be a worse form of government than theocracy in the long run, but offhand I can't think of any.”
― S.M. Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis

“Against fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.”
― S.M. Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis

“I was father to the land. I saved my people. I was... King.

"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 mothers of his children. He blinked once more. His own mother, her black braids swinging as she rocked his hurt away. She was singing to him:

"Manabozho saw some ducks
Hey, hey, heya hey
Said 'Come little brothers, sing and dance';
Hey, hey, heya hey--”
― S.M. Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis

“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, A Meeting at Corvallis

“Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward,”
― S.M. Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis

“Pretzel soup with smoked pork and caramelized onions.”
― S.M. Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis

“The story never ends, but our part in the tale does, for a while, and I’m in the mood for some happy-ever-aftering! We earned it, as the Gods themselves know!”
― S.M. Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis

“Lay on, MacDuff Lay on with the soup, and the Haggis and stuff; For though ’tis said you are our foe What side my bread’s buttered on you bet I know!”
― S.M. Stirling, A Meeting at Corvallis