Mike Shepherd > Quotes

“God, you don't just barge in on my father, and definitely not my mother."
No way. You check with their personal secretaries first. Check out their moods. Then you make an appointment to slip in. There are basic things you learn when your parents run a planet.”
― Mike Shepherd, Mutineer

“Kris decided to wait and see if this new Wasp was bigger than a bread box and smaller than the mythical telephone booth.”
― Mike Shepherd, Furious

“Eighty years of peace create a certain way of thinking.”
“Yes, Father. And those who don’t break it may very soon find it listed as their cause of death.”
― Mike Shepherd, Defiant

“Why am I alive when so many others are dead?”
― Mike Shepherd, Daring

“You walk like a duck, and quack like a duck, I'm gonna fill your ass full of birdshot like a duck.”
― Mike Shepherd, Indomitable

“There was no way to solve a problem for people who didn’t know they had one.”
― Mike Shepherd, Audacious

“Strange, we’re ready for our enemies and the hard-fought campaigns. But it’s the love and grace that brings us to our knees in tears.”
― Mike Shepherd, Resolute

“nonplussed”
― Mike Shepherd, Redoubtable

“Governments I leave to people who have the illusion they run them,” Abby said dryly. “Protocol comes in handy when you have to keep such deluded people happy.”
― Mike Shepherd, Deserter

“Grampa Trouble always said the only fair fight was the one you lost.”
― Mike Shepherd, Unrelenting

“It’s a bitch, you know, being an adult around the folks who changed your diapers.”
― Mike Shepherd, Mutineer

“She fell back on the blandest of questions a politician’s daughter knew. “So, do you like what your legislator is doing? You plan to vote for him next election?”
― Mike Shepherd, Audacious

“They govern best by governing least,’ ” ....
“It’s the first sentence of their Constitution. They are permitted to have exactly one hundred pages of laws.
Size of pages, margins, and font size specified to prevent cheating.”
― Mike Shepherd, Mutineer

“You can dispose of evil,” Abby added, “but you never can reclaim what it has done.”
― Mike Shepherd, Deserter

“He is committed to the truth. But the truth is a slippery thing, I’ve learned. Makes one a whole lot less resolute over the long run.”
― Mike Shepherd, Undaunted

“This court finds that no one should have to wait until they are dead to prove that they are in harm’s way.”
― Mike Shepherd, Resolute

“Wars and war rumors sold a lot of soap these days.”
― Mike Shepherd, Defiant

“She could worry about it, do it, or not do it.”
― Mike Shepherd, Redoubtable

“If you look at old Earth’s bloodiest periods, there are several patterns that repeat. One is missionaries come. Missionaries get killed. Army comes. Houses and crops get burned. Natives get killed. And the flag comes last. Suddenly a whole lot of local folks find themselves with an empress or kaiser or president they never voted for.”
― Mike Shepherd, Intrepid

“If what they say is true, and a wise warrior must know her enemy, then it may follow that the only person whom you understand . . . and who really understands you . . . is your enemy.”
― Mike Shepherd, Undaunted

“A supply ship was named the Surprise. That . . . was not encouraging.”
― Mike Shepherd, Undaunted