Lois McMaster Bujold Short Quotes

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Strange mercies, Illyan. You kill me so courteously.

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You have to be careful who you let define your good.

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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be.

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If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be able to do it.

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The good face pain. But the great — they embrace it.

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Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.

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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

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When I was twenty, I chose my life. It wasn't this one.

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Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.

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I'm just dazzled by the glittering tinsel of neo-fascism.

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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

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

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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.

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When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.

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There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.

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Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.

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I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

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

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

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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

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With all this manure around, there's got to be a pony someplace.

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

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The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.

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Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

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Why did so many antique myths agree that hell was a circular place?

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Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

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"Is this guy for real?"
"He thinks he's faking it, but he's not."

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