Quotes from Tanya Huff

Sometimes we win with greater firepower, through sheer numbers or more powerful weapons, but for the most part it's knowledge that defines our victories.

Safe from what? she'd asked. And under her touch, Kovar's kigh had answered, Change.

Experience had taught her that an enthusiastic officer was a bad thing; an enthusiastic idiot in a captain's uniform was a

I can feed from a chance encounter with a stranger and not feel I'm betraying anything, but when I feed from Caroline I feel I'm betraying you both. Her, because I can give her so little of what I am and you because I have given you all of me.

Stedrin's probably got Ryder filling out forms in triplicate before he'll issue the suits," Huilin snickered. "Fuk, there's probably a 'civilian request to rescue Marines' form." "Yeah, I'd laugh," Nivry sighed, sliding down the bulkhead and landing awkwardly on the deck, "but there

Wounded healers need bandages themselves. You can't save anyone if you bleed to death.

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

arranging to be emotionally tortured for four years by basketball loving escapees from the Silmarillion.

And it's a hell of a lot easier to believe in a nudist than a werewolf

although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales.

Bardic oaths weren't made to Shkoder, they were just made.

Civilians had a tendency to fetishize military dead without ever considering how and why they died.

Discretion doesn't really apply to giant, flying, fire-breathing lizards who very nearly removed my fucking eyebrows

The desire for stimulants following hard on the heels of sentience

Allie accepted it as her due that the plane had been overbooked and they were bumping her to first class. Or business class. Or whatever they were now calling those seats an adult could actually fit into.

three Nonees high.

Charlie considered showing up in time for dinner to be quite domestic enough, thanks very much.

While it was a truism throughout most of known space that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line, it was equally true as far as the Corps was concerned that the shortest distance between two points had probably been mined.

What's the situation with the grenades?" he asked, turning to Torin. "Insufficient quantity, sir, and they wouldn't stop those rocks anyway." "Why not?" "Well, they're rocks, sir

I would like to discuss the psychological determinates in your use of copulative profanity.

If anyone asked, they were home schooling Jack, which had the added benefit of being the truth, even if lessons tended toward it's a bus, you can't fight it rather than algebra.

And since when do we do what the ship wants?" "Pretty much from the moment the air lock blew," Ryder snorted.

You know it's been a strange day ... when you're looking forward to the arrival of the bloodsucking undead

Does the military even have a position between going all out and casualty? Dr. Sloan wondered-her thoughts apparently having been following the same paths. Yes, ma'am. We in the Corps refer to that position as being in the Navy.