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Book: The Protector's War
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S.M. Stirling _ The Protector's War
Who dares, wins," he muttered to himself. "Or gets royally banged about if things go south.
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S.M. Stirling _ The Protector's War
{Referring to an obsession with Tolkien's Middle Earth}: I meet a beautiful American heiress, I like her, she likes me . . . and then she turns out to be a fundamentalist with a more literal interpretation of scripture than I feel comfortable with. Only our bible was written by an Oxford don about sixty years ago.
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S.M. Stirling _ The Protector's War
Manure grew the fodder for the cow that made that ice cream and fertilized the beets that gave us the sugar, my girl," Juniper said sternly. "Earth must be fed or we all go hungry.
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S.M. Stirling _ The Protector's War
Grief is the tribute we pay the dead," she said, matter-of-fact sympathy in her voice. "But they don't ask more than we can afford to give. They've never really gone from us, you know, those we love; they're part of our story, and we of theirs.
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S.M. Stirling _ The Protector's War
You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
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