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“Indifference served him quite as well as integrity.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

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.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

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.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 18 (p. 345)

“History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 13 (p. 257)

“Misplaced paranoia could be as great a mistake as misplaced faith.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 5 (p. 99)

“Let me tell you, young man—the dirty little secret of democracy is that just because you get a vote, doesn’t mean you get your choice.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 3 (p. 51)

“Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me.
Sadly, it wasn’t even a record.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 1 (p. 4)

“What an obituary. When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, “He didn’t hit me.””

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998), Chapter 14 (p. 227)

“One maneuvers to the limit, but the golden moment demands action. If you miss it, the gods damn you forever. and vice versa.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Labyrinth (1989), p. 186

“Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

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.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (2016), Chapter 17 (p. 386)

“Babies are just a challenge. Teenagers are a nightmare.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (2016), Chapter 4 (p. 92)

“Taste the betrayal of the gods, then; I have dined on it for ages.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 23 (p. 425)

“But even the gods cannot see infinitely far ahead. Our free wills cloud Their vision, even though Their eyes are more piercing than ours. The gods do not plan, so much as take advantage.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 18 (p. 327)

“I learned long ago not to exhaust myself grappling problems that time will carry away on its tide.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 289)

“So much of the uncanny—or the holy, for that matter—is inward experience. As such, testimony about it tends to be tainted. People lie. People delude themselves, or others. People are swayed or frightened or convinced they have seen things they have not. People are, frankly, sometimes simply mad.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 15 (pp. 263-264)

“I do not know where I am going. But I am quite weary enough of where I’ve been.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 9 (p. 157)

“All sorts of men had the capacity to kill for the convenience of their betters; though usually, the only spell required could be fitted in a clinking purse.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 5 (p. 84)

“Too little payment for a crime, too much for an accident.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 1 (p. 6)

“Don’t underestimate the viciousness of academics when funding is at stake.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 2 (p. 26)

“While not reliable enough to be put in charge of anything more complicated than a dishwasher, they were very easy to convince that all their troubles were someone else’s fault.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010), Chapter 2 (p. 34)

“There’s nothing like the threat of imminent death to force one to delegate.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002), Chapter 17 (p. 332)

“There were security angles, political angles, personal angles—how many angles could dance on the head of a pin?”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002), Chapter 4 (p. 52)

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