“There are weapons all around us here, we just don’t recognize them because we call them “tools.””
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 142)
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Vorkosigan Saga
The Vorkosigan Saga is a series of science fiction novels and short stories set in a common fictional universe by American author Lois McMaster Bujold. The first of these was published in 1986 and the most recent in May 2018. Works in the series have received numerous awards and nominations, including five Hugo award wins including one for Best Series.
“I don’t know whose judgement is worse, yours or the jerk’s who hired you—”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 5 (p. 101)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 4 (p. 78)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 36)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991), Chapter 10 (p. 411)
“You think like a soldier, m’lady.”
Kly sounded approving.
Cordelia wrinkled her brow in dismay. What an appalling compliment. The last thing she wanted was to start thinking like a soldier, playing their game by their rules. The hallucinatory military worldview was horribly infectious, though, immersed in it as she was now.
Chapter 13 (p. 458)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“For all you Betans seem soft, you have an appalling cold-blooded streak in you.”
“Rational streak, sir. Rationality has its merits. You Barrayarans ought to try it sometime.”
Chapter 9 (p. 393)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986), Chapter 19 (p. 320)
“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”
Chapter 18 (p. 308) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Chapter 13 (p. 223) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Source: Chapter 13 (pp. 221-222) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.”
Source: Chapter 13 (p. 215) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.”
Source: Chapter 3 (p. 44) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Source: Chapter 2 (pp. 29-30) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“No amount of money can make one stay bought. Who does not freely choose to.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 24 (p. 540)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 24 (p. 527)
“Maybe only love gave you more than what you’d dealt for.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 492)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 490)
“The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 20 (p. 442)
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 15 (p. 337)
