“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls
Source: Paladin of Souls
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Paladin of Souls is a 2003 fantasy novel by American writer Lois McMaster Bujold. It won the "triple crown" of Hugo, Locus, and Nebula awards. It is a sequel to The Curse of Chalion, and takes place approximately three years later. The series that it is part of, World of the Five Gods, won the Hugo Award for Best Series in 2018.Both Paladin of Souls and its prequel Curse of Chalion are set in the landlocked medieval kingdom of Chalion, which itself is a fictional equivalent of Castile and León during the time of the Reconquista, or Spanish Reconquest.
“You are a most excellent lawyer, for a dead man.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls
Source: Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 296
“Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls
Paladin of Souls (2003)
Context: You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.
p. 36
“Such a perilous concentration of demons would create chaos all around it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls
"War gathers on these borders," said Ista. "A greater concentration of chaos I can hardly imagine."
p. 281
Paladin of Souls (2003)
“The gods…the gods may forgive much, to a truly penitent heart.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls
Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves."
p. 61
Paladin of Souls (2003)
“The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!”
Lois McMaster Bujold book Paladin of Souls
"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
