Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes - Page 7

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• Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

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  Habit, Miles, Plus

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.

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  Liars, Men, Thinking

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• The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.

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  Pain, Faces, Embrace

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.170, Baen Books

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• For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

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  Mad, Despair, Lasts

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.195, Baen Books

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• Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

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  Laughter, Fall, Mean

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• [Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

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  Eye, May, Reason

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• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

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  Sleep, Caring, Men

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• Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

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  Army, Weapons, If I Could

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.41, Baen Books

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• Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures.

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  Keys, Decision, Lessons

  Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). “Young Miles”, Baen Books

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• Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective.

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  Perspective, Building, Accounts

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• The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

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  War, Coffee, Winning

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• I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

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  Fate

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• I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

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  Giving, Victory, Triumph

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

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  Cost, Loses, Values

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.128, Baen Books

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• I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

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  Character, Men, Duty

  "Ethan of Athos". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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• Our children change us... whether they live or not.

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  Change, Children, Reality

  "Barrayar". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.

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• My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

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  Party, Soul, Dinner

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.101, Baen Books

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• As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

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  Technique, Growing, Favors

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• Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.

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  Dream, Airports, Anxiety

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• Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

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  Sight, Reason, Redundant

  "The Curse of Chalion". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2001.

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• A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

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  Sight, First Impression, Matter

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

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• The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

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  Giving, Hook, Embedded

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

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• Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.

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  Missing, Missing Something, Extraordinary

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• You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

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  Heart, Humility, Secret

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). “A Civil Campaign”, p.35, Baen Books

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• One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

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  Wounds And Scars, Hands, Choices

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

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