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“Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The warrior's Apprentice

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

Beauty

“It was hell to be so tired, and still care.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: Shards of Honour

Hell

“He gave me no sign. I was never the sort to receive portents, or to delude myself that I had. Silence was always my portion, in return for my prayers.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 295

Silence

“I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Ethan of Athos (1986)

“Sometimes insanity is not a tragedy. Sometimes, it's a strategy for survival. Sometimes … it's a triumph.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)

“You're so hopelessly monosexual, Miles.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“"Such a perilous concentration of demons would create chaos all around it."
"War gathers on these borders," said Ista. "A greater concentration of chaos I can hardly imagine."”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 281

War , Imagination

“Vorreedi stated dangerously, "I am not a mushroom, Lieutenant Vorkosigan."
To be kept in the dark and fed on horseshit, right. Miles sighed inwardly.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

“Marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)

Marriage , Adulthood

“And you could just watch men begin to see what he told them they were seeing, whether it was there or not.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 433

Men

“She's just as bad as he is! God help me.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Winterfair Gifts (2008)

God , Help

“When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a… future subordinate. New ensigns were supposed to be a subhuman species anyway.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

Future

“When you can see the colors of the feathers, you'll also understand how you can expand your borders to infinity.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

Color , Understanding

“"Just what kind of noose are you offering to put round my neck, here? Is this treason?"
"Worse," Cazaril sighed. "Theology."”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 333

“"Is this guy for real?"
"He thinks he's faking it, but he's not."”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

Guy , Thinking

“Some fortunate, prolific writers seem to be able, efficiently, to keep several projects going at once; it appears I am not one of them.”

Lois McMaster Bujold

Geek Speak Magazine Interview (2010)

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