Wolf and Iron Quotes

“John Le Carre said that authenticity is less important than plausibility.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Wolf and Iron

“It did not mean that the explanation was always immediately available. But nothing happened without a reason; particularly as far as the actions of the higher mammals were concerned. There had to be a cause for every action. That”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Wolf and Iron

“He had won. True enough, he had won over nothing more than shadows within him. Still, there was that same feeling that he had had after he had come successfully up through the cellar and past Wolf with the canned food in his arms, and the feeling following that evening in which Wolf had come to him in a new, strangely submissive manner. In both cases, he had known a feeling that he had passed some kind of watershed in his life.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Wolf and Iron

“The first rule of knife fighting,” said Nick, “is—don’t.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Wolf and Iron