https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 28 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/lee-sharon/78470/ https://wist.info/lee-sharon/78470/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:01:50 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=78470 In an ally, considerations of house, clan, planet, race are insignificant beside two prime questions, which are: 1. Can he shoot? 2. Will he aim at your enemy?

Sharon Lee (b. 1952) American author
Local Custom, ch. 18, epigraph (2001) [with Steve Miller]

In the fiction, this is noted as "Excerpted from Cantra yos'Phelium's Log Book." The phrase has appeared in at least two other locations in the "Liaden Universe" series of books: Scout's Progress, ch. 25, epigraph (2001) [with Steve Miller] and I Dare, "Day 286 Standard Year 1392" (2002) [with Steve Miller]; in fiction, these are noted as Cantra yos'Phelium's words from the Diaries of Korval. ]]> https://wist.info/lee-sharon/78470/feed/ 0 78470