Catherine Asaro

"The progress of the human race could be described as the history of how we didn't know what we didn't know."

"“If this is not sorcery, what is it?” “Technology.”"

"“Even if I knew ancient warfare, which I don’t, they probably have their own strategies here.” “The strategy is the same everywhere,” she muttered. “Kill.”"

"“I do not understand this ‘mountain climbing.’” Shannar glared at Brad as if he had invented the activity rather than just given them the terminology. “What sane person would hammer spikes in a wall and swing from them on a rope?”"

"That was the trouble with being an empath; he couldn’t convince himself a woman wanted him unless she really did."

"Either his desire was too intense to shut out or else I was feeling my own as well as his. What was going on? It was wrong, all wrong. No, it wasn’t wrong, it was right, and that was what was wrong."

"How do you like that? The future of the universe may be in the hands of a crazy woman."

"That stopped me. I had been so caught up in events, I hadn’t had a chance to think through the ramifications of them all."