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

“Be your own judge. But commit no trespass, remembering that where another's liberty begins your own inevitably meets its boundary.”
― S.M. Stirling, The Scourge of God

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

“Having thought, I have acted, she thought. Let the arrow fly.”
― S. M. Stirling, The Golden Princess