Harry Turtledove Quotes

You can’t get along with somebody who’s bound and determined not to get along with you.

Falling asleep in a corset was impressive proof of what exhaustion could do.

Agnes might know what she was doing heading into this marriage, but he didn’t. He had no clue; marriage wasn’t part of the curriculum at West Point. Maybe it should be, he thought. It might not produce better officers, but was very likely to produce happier ones.

Proclaiming they had the answers was the easy part. Really having them, and making them work—that looked harder. That looked a hell of a lot harder to him. But some people would buy castles in the air because they were short of beans on the ground.

Anne took her own attractiveness so much for granted, a man who showed he wasn’t completely in her grasp often succeeded in piquing her interest by sheer contrariness.

“I don’t hide anything I aim to do; I just come right out and say it.” An alarm whistle went off in Anne’s head; any man who said something like that was almost bound to be lying.

Anne saw his attention focus on her. It still wasn’t the look a man gave an attractive woman: more like the look a sniper gave a target.

Your deplorable taste in politics aside, you’re an intelligent man.

He was still very young, young enough to believe in the tooth fairy, the common sense of Congress, and a great many other unlikelihoods.

“I’ll be all right,” Nellie said. “This is something God meant women to do.” And if that doesn’t prove God is a man, I don’t know what does.

That held enough truth to be provocative, not enough to be useful.

There’s no such thing as glory, near as I can tell. If the machine guns didn’t kill it, the artillery did.

He hated parliamentary procedure, but he’d started learning it anyhow, even if he did think it was only a way to cheat by the numbers.

A man who couldn’t see truth when it tried to shoot him wouldn’t live long, and didn’t deserve to.

Has anyone ever told you, sir, that you may be too damn smart for your own good?" "A whole raft of people, Colonel Landis," Morrell answered cheerfully. "Once or twice, they've even been right.