Lois McMaster Bujold - Choose Quotes

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His mother had often said, "When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action." She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.

Lois McMaster Bujold

You can't choose between evil and evil, in the dark, by logic. You can only cling to some safety line of principle.

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

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. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming. (...)
I don't duel. But if you seek to die like a bludgeoned steer, cross me again.

Lois McMaster Bujold