Quotes from work

Vorkosigan Saga

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

“I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure. And I don't trust myself anymore. I don't know what's happened to my edge. Lost it in a strange land.”

“Am I reading too much into all that innuendo, or did you in fact just connive to assassinate Gregor in one breath, offer to cuckold him in the next, accuse your father of homosexuality, suggest a patricidal plot against him, and league yourself with Cavilo -- what are you going to do for an encore?”

“All true wealth is biological.”

“As God is my witness, when I am laid to my rest, I hope my best beloved will have better to say of me than "He never hit me."”

“With all this manure around, there's got to be a pony someplace.”

“A good friend of my son's is a son to me.”

“You have to be careful who you let define your good.”

“I guess it just doesn't look very heroic to sneak up behind somebody and shoot them in the back. I can't help thinking it would be more efficient, though.”

“It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt.”

“It's not a comfortable thing, to be chosen so. I tried to avoid it for a long time, but God finds ways of dealing with draft dodgers.”