Kimberly Bitner

“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. Stirling, The Protector's War

“Sure it is that They have many faces. All the shapes the Divine shows us are true; and none are all the Truth.”
― S.M. Stirling, The High King of Montival

“And doesn’t everything die and return; the grass, the trees, the fields? Why not us?”
― S.M. Stirling, The Scourge of God

“Every reality that we can make begins with a dream,”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess