Lois McMaster Bujold: Trending quotes (page 5)
Lois McMaster Bujold trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”
Source: Paladin of Souls
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.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
“The good face pain. But the great — they embrace it.”
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.”
Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
Source: Borders of Infinity
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.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 16 (p. 268)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)