Top 61 Tanya Huff Quotes
#1. Sometimes the gods smile," he grunted. "Yes, sir." And sometimes they kick you over and stomp you flat.
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#2. It is a great blow to the ego, Sssergeant, to dissscover that you are, after all, not unique." He looked up, his tongue flickering. "I am, however, mossstly recovered.
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#3. People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive.
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#4. You make it sound so simple." "Well, it's war; it's not rocket science." Then the memory of what had once been accomplished by three Marines with a surface-to-air missile launcher, a game chip, and the guts from a field kitchen twisted her mouth into a grin. "Usually," she repeated.
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#5. Bardic oaths weren't made to Shkoder, they were just made.
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#6. Trains aren't a problem."
"You turn into mist?"
"No, I step out of the way.
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#7. All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe.
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#9. The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded.
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#10. She says the design's damned near idiot proof." The stern rose and fell. "Did something just go poink?" Torin asked. "Because, generally, that's not a good sound.
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#11. Safe from what? she'd asked.
And under her touch, Kovar's kigh had answered, "Change".
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#12. Torin suspected Darlys was praying and only hoped she wasn't praying to her - for she was a vengeful god, or, at the very least, a god who could use a few hour's more sleep and a large cup of black coffee.
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#13. The off-the-record reaction of the First Human Contact Team upon meeting the di'Taykan had been, "Holy fuk, they're elves!" To the horror of right thinking xenoanthropologists everywhere, the name stuck.
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#14. Old soldier's trick, sir. Sleep when you can." "You're not sleeping, Staff." "Staff sergeants never sleep, sir." "Ever vigilant?" "You've been reading the brochure.
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#15. What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?
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#16. We are using these to follow the Others home. We are maybe using these to end the war." "We are maybe using these to die in a new and exciting way.
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#17. Although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales.
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#18. Oh, for fuck's sake; sometimes a raccoon is just a raccoon!
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#19. Bards were terrible at keeping secrets. They insisted on putting them to music.
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#20. I'm sorry."
About what?"
He shrugged, made uncomfortable by the question."I'm not sure. It's a Canadian thing.
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#21. All things are within the Circle. That is the very Center of what we believe. If all things are not enclosed, then there is no Circle.
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#22. Going to tell us why you think so, Gunny?" "I expect the belief is based on years and years of experience combined with a number of subliminal clues that I'm not consciously aware of." "Gut feeling?" Mike asked in the stunned silence that followed her declaration. "Pretty much, yeah.
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#23. Large men in black plate mail with red cloaks and plumes don't sneak worth a damn.
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#24. You expecting a collapse, Gunny?" "The technical sergeant is repairing alien technology with a piece of torn uniform - I'm expected the Goddamned tunnel to blow up." "Ressk's helping." Mike's voice sounded muffled. "And that makes all the difference," Torin snorted.
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#25. Toronto's already ass-deep in cockroaches and conservatives; what's one more lower life-form?
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#26. Claire "The Elysian Fields Guest House? Why didn't he just call it the Vestibule to Hell?"
Dean "Because that would be bad for business?"
From Summon the Keeper
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#27. You might not be aware of this, but it takes more than bright lights to damage a Marine. We've been highly trained to deal with loud noises, too.
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#28. Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?
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#29. Charlie. Never underestimate the power of abs so defined you can open a Corona on them.
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#30. Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.
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#31. You guys only knew him for a week." "No." Torin waited until Ryder had hold of both handles, then she stepped away. "We knew him his whole life.
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#32. Torin had never been a great believer in luck, preferring to trust in training, preparation, and strong artillery support, but it was impossible to deny the good fortune that had caused them to crash precisely where they had.
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#33. Do we expect a fight, Gunnery Sergeant?" "We always expect a fight, Private Kichar. We're Marines; it's what we do.
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#34. Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
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#35. Once a man began thinking with his body, intelligent decisions came few and far between.
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#36. The last time he'd had a ride this rough, there was a set of twins involved. "You okay?" Torin's voice in his military surplus PCU sounded distant. Flat. "Rough ride," he growled without relaxing his jaw. "You're thinking about the twins, aren't you?" "Might be." That had sounded more like Torin.
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#37. What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.
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#38. Hey, what've you got?" "Same fukking thing as you," Juan grunted. "Hot bag of balanced nutrients in a tasty fukking paste.
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#39. Experience had taught her that an enthusiastic officer was a bad thing; an enthusiastic idiot in a captain's uniform was a
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#40. If she lost it, the whole house of cards could come tumbling down. Fortunately, she had no intention of losing it; it would take too damned long to find it again, and she didn't have that kind of time.
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#41. Well?" Shylin fell into step beside him as Sibley came out into the passage. "How long?" "Would you believe eight inches?" "No." "As big as a baby's arm?" "Sib." "Chief says it'll be done when it's done.
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#42. Most people don't care who's in charge as long as someone is.
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#43. Violence is never the answer but sometimes, like with cockroaches, it is the only possible response.
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#44. . . and Phillips, go to Staff Sergeant Pole, have him assign you to platoons." "Platoons, Gunnery Sergeant?" "Got extra food stored in your ears, Phillips?
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#45. Arranging to be emotionally tortured for four years by basketball loving escapees from the Silmarillion.
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#46. I'm repairing alien tech with a sleeve, Gunny." Torin glanced down at her cuff. "So, ten? Fifteen?" "Fifteen.
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#47. It took him forever to get to downtown Vancouver although Tony had to admit that saving the world by public transportation was a particularly Canadian way to do things.
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#48. I tell you what I won't put up with. You chose how to behave.
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#49. This situation was tailor-made for that last lesson in Combat Morale, If you're going to die anyway, see to it that your people die with dry underwear and a smile.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Holy fuk." Lieutenant Jarret snorted. "Private Checya, I think you've just expressed the official reaction.
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#52. But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slayer of evil, I defeat all those who raise their swords in opposition to Arthur, King of all Britain."
"Trust me, kid, women prefer a man who can cook.
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#53. Did you pull rank?" "On a chief warrant officer?" They'd reached the link, and he slapped the call button. "Do I look suicidal?
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#54. You are here." Torin would have bet her pension that the graffiti scrawled next to it in a script she didn't recognize said, "And your luggage is in Antares," or a variation thereof.
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#55. And the politicians will note your protest, and it won't make a damned bit of difference.
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#56. Isn't that just like a man. 450-fucking-years-old and he's still thinking with his balls!
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#57. The Corps has always believed that the most powerful weapon its people possesses is between their ears.
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#58. The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.
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#59. Does he honestly think he's still in charge?" Mashona wondered. "He thinks Human's First has an apostrophe.
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#60. That was opportunity knocking." She shoved the last empty coffee pouch into her pack. "You didn't answer, so it's buggered off to find someone who appreciates it.
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#61. What are you on, Samuel?"
This was easier, he glanced down. "Laminate.
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