Quotes from book
The Hallowed Hunt


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“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)

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“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)

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“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)

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“Oh, fine new friends you have—until They betray you. If the gods toy with you, cousin, it is for Their ends, not yours.”

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 279)

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“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)

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“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)

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Lois McMaster Bujold photo

“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)

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“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)

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“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)

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“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)

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“Indifference served him quite as well as integrity.”

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 3 (p. 50)

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“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)

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

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

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Lois McMaster Bujold photo

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

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

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Lois McMaster Bujold photo

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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold photo
Lois McMaster Bujold photo

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

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

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