Lois McMaster Bujold - The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

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The deadly weapon seemed unnaturally light and easy in his hand. Something that lethal should have more heft, like a broadsword. Wrong, for murder to be so potentially effortless — one ought to at least have to grunt for it.

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When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.

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Heroes. They sprang up around him like weeds. A carrier, he was seemingly unable to catch the disease he spread.

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Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.

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How can I give you up? You're the mountains and the lake, the memories — you have them all. When you're with me, I'm at home, wherever I am.

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Acting or reacting, we carry him in us. You can't walk away from him any more than I can. Whether you travel toward or away, he'll be the compass. He'll be the glass, full of subtle colors and astigmatisms, through which all new things will be viewed. I too have a father who haunts me, and I know.

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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

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Organization seemed to be the key. To get huge masses of properly matched men and materials to the right place at the right time in the right order with the swiftness required to even grasp survival — to wrestle an infinitely complex and confusing reality into the abstract shape of victory — organization, it seemed, might even outrank courage as a soldierly virtue.

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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

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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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