Harry Turtledove
Quotes
If you started thinking the whole world was like the part of it where you lived, you were going to be wrong a lot of the time.
p. 198
Scott said, “If things had gone the way they were supposed to, we’d have been in Philadelphia a long time ago.”
“Yeah, and if pigs had wings, we’d all carry umbrellas,” Featherstone replied with a snort “When you’ve been through even a little more fighting, kid, you’re going to see that things just don’t go the way they’re supposed to.”
p. 341
Know what you’re doing and you’ll never need to cheat.
p. 383
War would have been a much simpler, easier business with politics out of the mix.
p. 282
The Book of Mormon is no more the word of God than is an advertising circular for stomach powders.
p. 440
Nobody was supposed to shoot at people wearing Red Cross armbands, but bullets, as he’d learned too well, weren’t fussy about whom they hit.
p. 484
Shouldering the bag, Moss made for the canvas tents that housed his new squadron. Such arrangements were all very well now, with the weather warm, but could you live in a tent in the middle of winter? Maybe the war would be over and he wouldn’t have to find out. He clicked tongue between teeth. He believed nonsense like that the year before. He was a tougher sell now.
p. 384
“How am I supposed to surprise you, Lucius?”
He spread his hands and shrugged. “As long as we’ve been married, and you still expect to surprise me? You make me happy. That is enough, and more than enough. What do I need of surprises?”
p. 23
Whenever you throw away what’s right for what’s convenient, you end up losing both.
p. 28
Being sure wasn’t the same thing as being right.
p. 325
No, he hadn’t a clue. She studied him—perfect coif, perfect clothes, perfect confidence. Inside, where it didn’t show, she smiled a hunter’s smile. Perfect target.
p. 184
The paper was shipped up from the USA, and full of lies; since the demise of the Rosenfeld Register (which had been only half full of lies), no local paper had been permitted. But even lies could be interesting if they were new lies: why else did people read so many books and magazines?
p. 463
