He smiled, looking into the flames. "He used to sleep on the foot of my bed, bad breath and gas and all, and I even took him hunting."
"It's odd to take a dog hunting?"
"Max? Yeah, sort of like taking along a brass band. He saved a lot of deer from death.
Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap even a ten-dollar hooker around, if he's got any self respect, much less hurt his own woman. Much less ten times over the mother of his kids. A real man busts his ass to feed his family, fights for them if he has to, dies for them if he has to. And he treats his wife with respect every day of his life, treats her like a queen - the queen of the home she makes for their children.
S.M. StirlingTag: domestic-violence dies-the-fire emberverse stirling
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.
S.M. StirlingYou can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.
S.M. Stirling(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.
S.M. StirlingManure 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.
S.M. StirlingThere may be a worse form of government than theocracy in the long run, but offhand I can't think of any.
S.M. StirlingAgainst fashion, even tyrants struggle in vain, she thought.
S.M. StirlingStrange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
S.M. StirlingMyths are lies; but I believe in the power of myths the way I believe in rocks.
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