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If he ever does do himself in, I'm betting it'll be something that involves large explosions. And lots of innocent bystanders, probably. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him. — Lois McMaster Bujold

All true wealth is biological. — Lois McMaster Bujold

No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me. — Lois McMaster Bujold

To slide halfway to stupid and stop was rare indeed. — Lois McMaster Bujold

That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. — Lois McMaster Bujold

So you're saying that I could die at any moment!" "Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way? — Lois McMaster Bujold

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Des said reluctantly at last, Pray to your god. He's the only other one in here besides us. Pen — Lois McMaster Bujold

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. — Lois McMaster Bujold

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? — Lois McMaster Bujold

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway. — Lois McMaster Bujold

He who plots revenge must dig two graves. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. — Lois McMaster Bujold

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming. — Lois McMaster Bujold

It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live. — Lois McMaster Bujold

So, how long has my mother had this questionable fetish for bisexual Barrayaran admirals? I don't think even the Betans have earrings for that one. — Lois McMaster Bujold

He didn't think he was edging into dementia. He suspected he was edging into sanity, the long way around. The hard way. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Yet loyalty must run two ways, or else become betrayal in the egg. — Lois McMaster Bujold

He's going to say it, I just know he is ...
Let's see what happens. — Lois McMaster Bujold

On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS — Lois McMaster Bujold

Farmer barn dances, although the — Lois McMaster Bujold

All happy endings are ultimately an illusion created by stopping short. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can't be given. — Lois McMaster Bujold

But when he's cut, I bleed. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Cordelia faced one more climb onto that torture-device for humans and horses called a saddle. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Some men just aren't cut for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived — Lois McMaster Bujold

If you can't do what you want, do what you can. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Money, power, sex ... and elephants. — Lois McMaster Bujold

He's not so short," said Ekaterin defensively. "He's just . . . concentrated." Her — Lois McMaster Bujold

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe."
"'Know thyself.'"
"We try, sir. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. — Lois McMaster Bujold

So what's the test?"
"Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life. — Lois McMaster Bujold

If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says. — Lois McMaster Bujold

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Roic said nothing, firmly. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I'd have been a fool not to have thought of it, and a greater fool not to have thought better of it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Perfect preservation isn't life, it's death. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Let's go over a little astrography. Geography is the mother of strategy, they say. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A price is something you get.
A cost is something you lose. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure. — Lois McMaster Bujold

It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over - at your age, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The sort of fellow whose funeral's orations are all on the theme of Well, that's a relief. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There will be a ten percent surcharge for resisting arrest, — Lois McMaster Bujold

Lady Peace is the first hostage taken when economic discomfort rises. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I had to discover and teach myself all kinds of tricks to get people to respond to the inside of me, and not the outside. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There is nothing, nothing, nothing more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. — Lois McMaster Bujold

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, boy, choose learning. It works more of the time. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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? — Lois McMaster Bujold

Well, one couldn't help one's thoughts. One could help opening one's mouth and saying something really stupid, though. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Change is a function of time and experience, and time is implacable. — Lois McMaster Bujold

You try to give away what you want yourself. — Lois McMaster Bujold

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. — Lois McMaster Bujold

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor — Lois McMaster Bujold

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. — Lois McMaster Bujold

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. — Lois McMaster Bujold

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth? — Lois McMaster Bujold

One step at a time," Vorkosigan returned grimly, "I can walk around the world. Watch me. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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. — Lois McMaster Bujold

We just try to go from day to day. Surprising where you can end up, that way. — Lois McMaster Bujold

...a great man. But...not quite great enough. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I wonder if we should add a box to tick off
Reason for travel: creepy planetary conquest ... no, I suppose not. — Lois McMaster Bujold

the unknown breeds dragons in map margins — Lois McMaster Bujold

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept? — Lois McMaster Bujold

I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. — Lois McMaster Bujold

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Koudelka puzzled over this attempted readjustment of his point of view, then let it bounce harmlessly off his impermeable habits of thought. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days. — Lois McMaster Bujold

To a man of certain age ... all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility. — Lois McMaster Bujold

There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded? — Lois McMaster Bujold

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The occasional alarming flash of Aral's doubts, like vivid filaments of lava seen through a surface one had thought safe stone. — Lois McMaster Bujold

You're worse than evil. You're inefficient. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm afraid even ImpSec has no explanation for women's tastes in men. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Principles come and go, but ... human souls are immortal, and you should therefore throw in your lot with the greater part. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake — Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. — Lois McMaster Bujold

He was beginning to wonder if he was trying to rescue the dragon. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. — Lois McMaster Bujold

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost. — Lois McMaster Bujold

I seem to have accidentally got married, but it's only temporary. — Lois McMaster Bujold

With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Change is possible.'

'Change is inevitable. — Lois McMaster Bujold

She had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death - a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it. — Lois McMaster Bujold