Lois McMaster Bujold is an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record, not counting his Retro Hugo. Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award. In 2013 she was awarded the Forry Award. In 2017 she won a Hugo Award for Best Series, for the Vorkosigan Saga.
The bulk of Bujold's works comprises three separate book series: the Vorkosigan Saga, the Chalion Series, and the Sharing Knife series.
“You think like a soldier, m’lady.”
Kly sounded approving.
Cordelia wrinkled her brow in dismay. What an appalling compliment. The last thing she wanted was to start thinking like a soldier, playing their game by their rules. The hallucinatory military worldview was horribly infectious, though, immersed in it as she was now.
Chapter 13 (p. 458)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“For all you Betans seem soft, you have an appalling cold-blooded streak in you.”
“Rational streak, sir. Rationality has its merits. You Barrayarans ought to try it sometime.”
Chapter 9 (p. 393)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986), Chapter 19 (p. 320)
“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”
Chapter 18 (p. 308) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Chapter 13 (p. 223) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Source: Chapter 13 (pp. 221-222) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.”
Source: Chapter 13 (p. 215) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.”
Source: Chapter 3 (p. 44) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Source: Chapter 2 (pp. 29-30) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“No amount of money can make one stay bought. Who does not freely choose to.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 24 (p. 540)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 24 (p. 527)
“Maybe only love gave you more than what you’d dealt for.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 492)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 490)
“The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 20 (p. 442)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 15 (p. 337)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 15 (p. 319)
“Is that going to be a problem?”
said Ivan.
“Definitely. I just don’t know what kind, yet. Or whose.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 14 (p. 298)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 11 (p. 231)
asked Tej, her brows crimping in puzzlement.
“Uh…” Ivan sought a translation. “Like a Betan licensed practical sexuality therapist, only without the licensed and the therapy parts.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 11 (p. 229)
“Just because I have forgotten so many old enemies does not mean they have forgotten me.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 9 (p. 196)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 157)
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.”
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!”
"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
“Damn the boy for making a fucking farce out of his own funeral!”
Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
"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.”
"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)
“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.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 24 (pp. 442-443)
“Inventing as you go, are you?”
“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.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 290)
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.”
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.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 12 (p. 218)
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.”
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?”
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.”
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?”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 4 (p. 57)
“Indifference served him quite as well as integrity.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 3 (p. 50)
“It still felt like hauling buckets from a well of memory with a rope that burned his hands.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 2 (p. 35)
“I expect death will still be cheap and always available, doesn’t take high tech.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 18 (p. 345)
“History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 13 (p. 257)
“Misplaced paranoia could be as great a mistake as misplaced faith.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 5 (p. 99)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 3 (p. 51)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 1 (p. 4)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 14 (p. 227)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Labyrinth (1989), p. 186
“Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002), Chapter 2 (p. 32)
“By far the most dangerous animal on the planet was an invasive species of ape.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (2016), Chapter 17 (p. 386)
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