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“Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

“[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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

“Money, power, sex… and elephants.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory

Source: Memory

“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”

Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“You try to give away what you want yourself.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)

“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls

Source: Paladin of Souls

“You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Memory

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Context: "You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."
"And what do you find on the other side? When you go on?"
"Your life again. What else?"
"Is that a promise?"
"It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on."

“Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)

“The good face pain. But the great — they embrace it.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
Source: Shards of Honour

“Aren't family squabbles jolly fun? Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Borders of Infinity

Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
Source: Borders of Infinity

“I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
Source: Shards of Honour

“I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Mirror Dance

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)

“Miles is… Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 16 (p. 268)

“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)