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“Just because I have forgotten so many old enemies does not mean they have forgotten me.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 9 (p. 196)

“Puzzles. I hate puzzles. Ivan liked flowcharts—nice and clear and you could always tell just where you were and what you should do next, everything laid out neatly. No ambiguities. No traps. Why couldn’t life be more like flowcharts?”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 157)

“How many details had to point in the same direction before one decided they pointed true? Depends on how costly it is to be mistaken, maybe?”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 1 (p. 21)

“I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

And I don't trust myself anymore. I don't know what's happened to my edge. Lost it in a strange land.
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls

"I have cursed them for years," said Ista dryly. "Turnabout being fair."
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379

“Don't panic.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

"I'm not panicking, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining."
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)

“You must kill if you expect to survive.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

"No you don't," Miles put in. "Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)

“Is this guy for real?”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

“He thinks he’s faking it,” said Suegar blandly, “but he’s not.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Borders of Infinity (1987), p. 243

“Heaven weeps, but free will is sacred. The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 24 (pp. 442-443)

“Inventing as you go, are you?”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

“Yes, I am quite godlike in that way, if no other.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 18 (p. 328)

“If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 290)

“Oh, fine new friends you have—until They betray you. If the gods toy with you, cousin, it is for Their ends, not yours.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 279)

“Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 15 (p. 260)

“Magical powers worked sometimes; material powers worked all the time.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 12 (p. 218)

“It is not, you know, that you lie well, cousin. It’s merely that no one is foolhardy enough to call you on it. This may have given you an inflated idea of your skill at dissimulation.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 136)

“It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 134)

“And what guidance did you receive for all your prayers, lady?”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

She bit her lip. “None.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 6 (p. 104)

“I saw no reason to stop my life for other people’s theories.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 4 (p. 65)

“Those who are unwilling to admit error are fated to repeat it?”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 4 (p. 57)