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21 " Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold
22 " 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. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Miles Errant (Vorkosigan Omnibus, #4)
23 " The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
24 " This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same. "
25 " And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Paladin of Souls (World of the Five Gods, #2)
26 " Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light by the atmosphere, and the endless night was the permanent default behind it all. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (Vorkosigan Saga, #15)
27 " There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.- Miles Vorkosigan "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #2)
28 " Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us. "
29 " You must learn to give, from sufficiency, not only take, from neediness. "
30 " 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. "
31 " Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later. "
32 " Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there.... "
33 " You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , A Civil Campaign (Vorkosigan Saga, #12)
34 " Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins. "
35 " The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid. "
36 " People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Brothers in Arms (Vorkosigan Saga, #5)
37 " We see the world not as it is, but as we are.~Dag Redwing Hickory Bluefield "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Passage (The Sharing Knife, #3)
38 " It was hell to be so tired, and still care. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan Saga, #1)
39 " We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. "
― Lois McMaster Bujold , Diplomatic Immunity (Vorkosigan Saga, #13)
40 " Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished. "