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Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7) QUOTES

Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7) QUOTES

1 " Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

2 " Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

3 " The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Cordelia not so much as first glance but gradually. And yet it seemed to work for them somehow. They made it work, pretending a government into existence.
Perhaps all governments were all consensus fictions at their hearts. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

4 " It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’ One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

5 " Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

6 " My home is not a place, it is people. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

7 " But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

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

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

9 " One step at a time,” Vorkosigan returned grimly, “I can walk around the world. Watch me. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

10 " Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

11 " One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine.
"Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous."
Vordarian choked, sputtering. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

12 " It’s not that I’m not upset; it’s just that I’m too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

13 " There's all of us adults, and one of him. We ought to be able to keep up. Why do I feel like he has us outnumbered and surrounded? "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

14 " And what is your current complaint?"

I don't like Barrayar, I want to go home, my father-in-law wants to murder my baby, half my friends are running for their lives, and I can't get ten minutes alone with my husband, whom you people are consuming before my eyes, my feet hurt, my head hurts, my soul hurts...

It was all too complicated. The poor man just wanted something to put in his blank, not an essay.

"Fatigue," Cordelia managed at last. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

15 " Our children change us . . . whether they live or not. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

16 " Let me help. Rhymes with I love you, right? "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

17 " I was so afraid for you, I forgot to be afraid for your enemies. I should have remembered. Dear Captain. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

18 " Are you saying I should run after her?”

“Crawl, actually, if I were you,” recommended Aral. “Crawl fast. Slither under her door, go belly-up, let her stomp on you till she gets it out of her system. Then apologize some more. You may yet save the situation.” Aral’s eyes were openly alight with amusement now.

“What do you call that? Total surrender?” said Kou indignantly.

“No. I’d call it winning.” His voice grew a shade cooler. “I’ve seen the war between men and women descend to scorched-earth heroics. Pyres of pride. You don’t want to go down that road. I guarantee it. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

19 " I'm sorry, Lady Vorkosigan. We'll simply have to begin at the beginning. Please bear with me. Do I understand correctly you've had some sort of female trouble?" No, most of my troubles have been with males. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)

20 " She inhaled the complex odors, from vegetation, water vapor, industrial waste gases. Barrayar permitted an amazing amount of air dumping, as if . . . well, air was free, here. Nobody measured it; there were no air processing and filtration fees. Did these people even realize how rich they were? All the air they could breathe, just by stepping outdoors, taken for granted as casually as they took frozen water falling from the sky. "

― Lois McMaster Bujold , Barrayar (Vorkosigan Saga, #7)