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“It's never too late while you're breathing.”

Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“I can't quit, once I've started. I've been told I'm pathologically persistent. I can't quit.”

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“I would be considerably more impressed with your god, dy Cabon," said Ista through her teeth, "if He could have arranged one life's worth of simple protection in advance, rather than three hundred lives' worth of gaudy vengeance afterward.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls

Source: Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 271

“"I thought they'd never fall asleep." Ivan paused; a slow smirk displaced the snarl on his face. "But they were smiling, when they finally did."”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

“Heroes. They sprang up around him like weeds. A carrier, he was seemingly unable to catch the disease he spread.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including — or perhaps especially — the failures.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

"Putting It Together" p. 6
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

“Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“Right or wrong, what I also saw was that you made an enemy, and left him alive behind you. Great charity. Bad tactics.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 60

“It's… a transcendental act. Making life. I thought about that when I was carrying Miles. 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“Just because we're adults doesn't automatically mean we can save you…”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)

“I’d have worn them as a courtesy to your friend, I’ll wear them now as a defiance to our enemies.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Winterfair Gifts (2008)

“Why did so many antique myths agree that hell was a circular place?”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 313

“Strange mercies, Illyan. You kill me so courteously.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

“How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

“Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“Peace to you, small lady. You've won a twisted poor modern knight, to wear your favor on his sleeve. But it's a twisted poor world we were both born into, that rejects us without mercy and ejects us without consultation. But at least I won't just tilt at windmills for you. I'll send in sappers to mine the twirling suckers and blow them into the sky. He knew who he served now. And why he could not quit. And why he must not fail”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)

“Confusion to the enemy.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)

“I smell diplomacy.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)

“You are what you do.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)