Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

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East is west, up is down, and being falsely arrested for getting your C. O.'s throat cut is a simplification. I must be on Barrayar.

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I was never a mercenary, not ever. Not for one single minute.

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"All right," Miles pulled Suegar to his feet, "let's go preach to the unconverted."
Suegar laughed suddenly. "I had a top kick once who used to say, 'Let's go kick some ass,' in just that tone of voice."

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I guess it just doesn't look very heroic to sneak up behind somebody and shoot them in the back. I can't help thinking it would be more efficient, though.

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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

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Lots of us SF-types like the idea of traveling to the Future (although, having now done so once myself — the hard way — I'm less sure), but why do we imagine the Future would want us? Oh, a few 21st-century Icemen, perhaps, as historical curiosities, but in our hundreds of millions? It would be like the greatest wave of immigration ever, but from the past into other people's Now. It might seem to them like sacrificing resources needed for their children to their great-great-great-grandparents. Counter-evolutionary, among other things.

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Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

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I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

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You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

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

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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."

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