Lois McMaster Bujold

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Don’t promote your troubles beyond your rank.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

What you are is a question only you can answer.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Wikipedia is so dangerous.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“It’s not that I’m not upset; it’s just that I’m too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“(T)he cadet was too young to believe in death after life.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you don’t understand something, you should just try to learn more, that’s all.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Mark’s ideas tended to the bland, and there was no point in asking Miles, whose embittered suggestions all ran to things like…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there…”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Right.” Roic nodded. He glanced over Miles’s growing array of medical attachments. “By the way, m’lord. Had you happened to mention your…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“How had he rehearsed this vitally-important, utterly-critical meeting, again? "Mother, Father, let me introduce -- she's getting away!”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“It reminded him of that definition of his father's. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. The…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean.…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Yes. Now, you had that doctorate in Barrayaran history. Do any really interesting District succession squabbles spring to your memory?” “Lord Midnight…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Pym looked at the bugs, glanced at the sleeve of his proud uniform, stared again at the deadly parody of his insignia…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Aunt Lorna buys all our shoes big to grow into," Mina explained to Miles-san. "That's why they slip around like that." Lieutenant…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and then apologizing. Inconsistent, Father.He shuffled back…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Rish glanced uneasily at the outside door. “We can’t stay here. Someone else could come in or out at any moment. Better…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“There are, as you have just seen, two agendas being pursued here tonight," the Countess lectured amiably. "The political one of the…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Mysterious death, yes, you suspected something even then, I knew it!” With a wave of his hand, he overrode her hasty attempt…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried flossing his teeth. Then…

— Lois McMaster Bujold