The Sword of the Lady Quotes

“Stress" is mostly the result of not being allowed to kill some asshole you really want to slice and dice.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“Truth is a ladder of many rungs, and that from each we gain a new perspective?″”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“Sandra was fond of an old Russian saying: When a man causes you a problem, remember: no man, no problem.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“″He chose to come onto your land uninvited with a weapon in his hand,″ he said. ″When a man does that, he consents to his fate and makes you clean of his blood.″”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“The others saw him as he stumbled down the stairs, bleeding from nose and ears and eyes an mouth. The sheathed form of the Sword lay across his palms. He met their eyes, and choked out:

"Remember. Remember, all of you."

Mathilda's voice was infinitely gentle. "Remember what?"

"That I was a man, before I was King. Remember for me, when I forget.

His hand closed on the black double-lobed hilt, and the moonfire in the opal glowed. He drew the Sword, thrust it high.

And screamed as pain beyond all bearing ripped through him like white fire, turning his body to a thing of ash smoke.

He screamed, and knew.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“A man′s mind is never all of one thing, nor does he know himself or all his reasons beneath the masks he wears. They deceive even the wearer.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“″May you leave without returning and fall without rising, addressed to the lovely darlin′ man himself. The which is perhaps a little too close to a curse for comfort, but sometimes things need to be said.″”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“″And yet half a beast is the great God Pan To laugh as he sits by the river; Making a legend out of a man. The true Gods weep for the loss and the pain For the reed that will never grow again As a reed, with the reeds, by the river.″”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“like biting down on copper foil.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady

“pedal cars, so it went quickly. I was at my Order′s new chapter house on our mission farm at Drumheller, and I carried it on snowshoes and skis over the mountain passes and down to Barony Vernon in the Okanogan country. Then by horse and rail to the Columbia and Portland. I came all the way myself rather than handing”
― S.M. Stirling, The Sword of the Lady