The Golden Princess Quotes

“Good to have powerful friends. Even better to be a powerful friend, neh?”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“remember that even if you intend to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“Every reality that we can make begins with a dream,”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“You can’t make a falcon love you, but you can convince its little bird brain that sitting on your glove means a full croup.” “Unless it’s a Harris Hawk.”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly.”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“People change when they get older. They get more . . . cautious. They’ve been hit harder and more often. It doesn’t mean they’re stupid or timid—Mom”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“They waited. Reiko let the silence and the sounds fill her. Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly. In”
― S.M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“the swift daring strength of his youth and the steady hand of his ripe manhood we have had, but the wisdom of his deep age is taken from us and that we will never have, spilled with the blood he shed for us! Mourn, then, mourn! For he is lost and gone and we will send him to the sky and the earth and the sea.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“O God, You know me to be set in the midst of great peril. Grant me such strength of mind and body, that those evils which I suffer for my sins I may overcome through Thy assistance. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess

“Raptors like these falcons were solitary by nature; they didn’t even like each other except in the mating season, much less humans. All you could teach them was that doing what humans wanted would get them more of what they wanted, which was to kill, eat, mate and sleep.”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess