Lois McMaster Bujold citations

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“Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.”

“The good face pain. But the great — they embrace it.”

“Aren't family squabbles jolly fun? Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.”

“I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.”

“I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.”

“Miles is… Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.”

“Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.”

“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.”

“But when he’s cut, I bleed.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“You're so hopelessly monosexual, Miles.”

“"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."”

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

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

“The cream pie of justice flies one way.”

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

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

“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.”

“I'm just dazzled by the glittering tinsel of neo-fascism.”

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

“What you are is a question only you can answer.”

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

“We don't just march on the future, we charge it.”

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

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