Quotes from book
The Hallowed Hunt

Name: The Hallowed Hunt
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold

“Heaven weeps, but free will is sacred. The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 24 (pp. 442-443)

“Inventing as you go, are you?”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

“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)

“If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 290)

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

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

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

“Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 15 (p. 260)

“Magical powers worked sometimes; material powers worked all the time.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 12 (p. 218)

“It is not, you know, that you lie well, cousin. It’s merely that no one is foolhardy enough to call you on it. This may have given you an inflated idea of your skill at dissimulation.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 136)

“It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 134)

“And what guidance did you receive for all your prayers, lady?”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

She bit her lip. “None.”
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 6 (p. 104)

“I saw no reason to stop my life for other people’s theories.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 4 (p. 65)

“Those who are unwilling to admit error are fated to repeat it?”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 4 (p. 57)

“Indifference served him quite as well as integrity.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book 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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 2 (p. 35)

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

Lois McMaster Bujold book 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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book 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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book 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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book 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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book 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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book 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.”

Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt

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

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