“Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
Quotes from work
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.
“Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees — M. S., M. D., Ph. D…”
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“I don't hate him. I can't say I worship him, either. But when he's cut, I bleed.”
She paused a long time, and looked up to meet her mother’s eyes squarely. “But when he’s cut, I bleed.”
Chapter 12 (p. 184)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“Mine is not a theology of the elect. I intend to preach to the masses. Even the sinners.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.”
Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 40)
“I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
