Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes
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Lois McMaster Bujold Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I believe," she said slowly at last, "that the tormented are very close to God. I'm sorry, Sergeant." He
Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.
When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.
So you're saying that I could die at any moment!" "Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.
We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.
He didn't think he was edging into dementia. He suspected he was edging into sanity, the long way around. The hard way.
Like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies.
Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.
My Lord, we wish to resign. Her smile, confusingly, crept wider, as if she just said something delightful.
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
Send a patroller to check," said Miles a little tightly. Remembering he was supposed to be a diplomat, he added, "If you please." Teris
Pen wanted to ask if becoming a sorcerer made a man more, or less, attractive as a husband, but he had an uneasy feeling that he could guess.
Koudelka puzzled over this attempted readjustment of his point of view, then let it bounce harmlessly off his impermeable habits of thought.
Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.
All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair.
The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
I wonder if we should add a box to tick off
Reason for travel: creepy planetary conquest ... no, I suppose not.
Reason for travel: creepy planetary conquest ... no, I suppose not.
The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it.
Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
How had he rehearsed this vitally-important, utterly-critical meeting, again? Mother, Father, let me introduce
she's getting away!
she's getting away!
A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry
even if he is at a convenient height for it.
even if he is at a convenient height for it.
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique
'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
What do you most want for your birthday picnic, Admiral?" Taken by surprise, he answered honestly: "No casualties.
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
Principles come and go, but ... human souls are immortal, and you should therefore throw in your lot with the greater part.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Well, who wants to die in bed?" "You did, you always said. Of extreme old age, in bed, with somebody's wife." "Mine, by preference," Cazaril