Lois McMaster
Lois McMaster
hero i-can
Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.
victory survivor massacres
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
victory ease lasts
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
inspiration writing valleys
I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.
enemy battle firsts
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
easier permission
It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
sleep caring men
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.
giving victory triumph
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
girl suicidal mean
Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission
growing-up growing finished
Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.
power weakness illusion
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
light defeat now-and-then
Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
perspective building colonels
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.
eye differences way
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.