Tanya Huff

“Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?”

“Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.”

“Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.”

“I'll send three of Harnet's Di'taken. I have it on good authority that they think the sun shines out of my ass."Pole leaned forwards just enough to bring the major into his line of sight.Pole - "All of them?" Torrin - "Some of them are officers and thus blinded by the sun shining out of their own asses."Pole - "Did you just say that?"Torrin - "Yeah," Torrin offered him her hand. "Get over it.”

“Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.”

“He read disappointment at his response and wondered if she realized that she expected a certain amount of effusive sympathy from the people she told. Rejecting that sympathy made her feel strong, compensating for what she perceived as her weakness. He suspected that the disease was the first time she hadn't been able to make everything come out all right through the sheer determination that it would be.”

“Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us.”