“On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS”
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Falling Free
Source: Falling Free
Lois McMaster Bujold: 383 citations0 J'aime
Lois McMaster Bujold: Citations en anglais
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Diplomatic Immunity
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
"Putting It Together" p. 6
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Variante: When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
Source: Miles Errant
“Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: A Civil Campaign
“I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.”
Lois McMaster Bujold livre The warrior's Apprentice
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Source: Cordelia's Honor
Contexte: Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.
“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Diplomatic Immunity
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
Lois McMaster Bujold livre The Vor Game
Source: The Vor Game
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Mirror Dance
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Brothers in Arms
Variante: "Don't panic."
"I'm not panicking, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining."
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Paladin of Souls
Source: Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 44
“The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Source: Young Miles
“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Source: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“You try to give away what you want yourself.”
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Memory
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?”
Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion
Source: The Curse of Chalion
“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Paladin of Souls
Source: Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold livre Memory
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Contexte: "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."
“My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Source: A Civil Campaign
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