Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
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“Parallels, spirals, and reflections are some of my favorite literary patterns.”
"Putting It Together" p. 20
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
The Curse of Chalion (2000)
“A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“I don't hate him. I can't say I worship him, either. But when he's cut, I bleed.”
She paused a long time, and looked up to meet her mother’s eyes squarely. “But when he’s cut, I bleed.”
Chapter 12 (p. 184)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“Mine is not a theology of the elect. I intend to preach to the masses. Even the sinners.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
“If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 40)
“I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
“It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
This seems to be derived from a statement attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, and which she regularly used in her public addresses: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379