The Desert and the Blade Quotes

“Like its elder sibling love, friendship was a set of obligations willingly assumed, truth and trust among them, not just a pleasure or a feeling. At least it was if you were to be a friend worth having.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade

“if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade

“It did a man no harm to get drunk now and then, but only now and then.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade

“This plan may be bungled into wreck by fools.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade

“It was good to have subordinates who didn't need their t's crossed and the i's dotted.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade

“We climbed the Sea-End Tower in the lost city of Toronto as the High King and his comrades did on the Quest. It’s still standing, our lake-boat touched there on our way east,”
― S.M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade