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“Let he who is without sin cast the first lure.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)

“Parallels, spirals, and reflections are some of my favorite literary patterns.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Putting It Together" p. 20
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

“I don't duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. If I decide you die, you will die when I choose, where I choose, by what means I choose, and you will never see the blow coming. (…) I don't duel. But if you seek to die like a bludgeoned steer, cross me again.”

Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion

The Curse of Chalion (2000)

“God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)

“She didn't feel anything, no grief or remorse, though her heart was racing and her breath came in gasps. A shocky combat-high, that immortal rush that made men charge machine guns. So this was what the war-addicts came for.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“I don't hate him. I can't say I worship him, either. But when he's cut, I bleed.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

“If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

“Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

“His heart still seemed to ache, the way an overstrained muscle twinged when one put weight on it. Like muscle strain, it would pass with a little rest, he suspected.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

“Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)

“I gather from the pattern of her flinches that the late unlamented Tien Vorsoisson was one of those subtle feral parasites who leave their mates scratching their heads and asking, "Am I crazy? Am I crazy?"”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

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)