Steve Perry
Quotes
Jo’s desire was to take a long, hot shower when she got back to the base. The crawlers had outdoor showerheads, but the noodle-pinching hardware designers had been given keep-it-cheap design orders, and had apparently achieved them. Crawler showers came with absolutely unalterable timers that gave you a maximum two minutes of piss-poor pressure before they shut off; then they made you wait two more minutes before they would restart. Standing there wet and soapy waiting for more slow-flow rinse water was not the most soothing experience when you were scrubbing mud and blood off yourself.
More than a few soldiers over the years must have entertained the fantasy of hunting down the people who came up with shower timers and murdering them. Or at least dipping them in a latrine trench, then restricting them to a crawler shower to wash it off...
“Man proposes, God disposes,” Singh said.
Both fems looked at him. He shrugged. “Whenever you run into a situation that you cannot control, we on Ananda often find it convenient to blame it on God.”
The loudest sound on a battle field was click! when you were expecting bang! It was a never-ending wonder: What was going to go wrong next?
Droc was not particularly religious himself. If the gods responded to entreaties, they had never demonstrated it to him. Better his time was spent doing something that might work.
Rich people seldom run amok; They hire somebody to do that for them.
“One who searches for the definition ‘devious’ can find it listed under ‘human.’”
“Why would he do that?”
“Because he is insane, a fool, a man so devious they will have to guard his corpse after he dies, or he’ll steal it himself!”
If it ain’t broke, don’t break it.
There are a lot of promises in the recycle bins of history.
In the land of the unarmed, the man with a rock was king.
Never felt so alive as you did after you came out of a battle in one piece. And if you were dead? You wouldn’t feel that...
“Everybody knows that.”
“Assume for a moment that everybody is wrong.”
