Quotes from workVorkosigan 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.
“Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“He gave himself up to God and pressed the button.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 15 (p. 284)
“No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
This includes a common paraphrase of a statement which originates with military strategist Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke: "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 8 (p. 128)
“If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be able to do it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
“Yes,” Vorkosigan agreed, “I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.”
Chapter 4 (p. 60)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (pp. 273-274)
“The best strategies run on rails. Live or die, you make your goal.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“Three cheers for literacy… I feel sick.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
This evokes a statement in "Death of a Hired Man" by Robert Frost: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
