“Are we not all called on to yield our children back to the world, in the end?” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Arhys would have protected you from this choice, as a father would a beloved child. Arhys is wrong in this. I give… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“All sorts of men don't make it home for the births of their children. But My mother was out of town on… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Mark, you don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“The Father of Winter says tells Ista, "...For my great-souled child is very late, and lost upon his road. My calling voice… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“It reminded him of that definition of his father's. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. The mind was… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“I was imagining the most bizarre things befalling you.” “Did they include a six-hundred-pound ice bear and a pirate poet?” “No…” “Then they weren’t… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used?" "Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation."… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“You bastards are on the top of Imperial Lord Auditor Miles Vorkosigan's very own shit list now, you bet. But under what name? Only… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn't go… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“I always thought my parents could fix anything. Now it's my turn. Dear God, how did this happen?” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“I think it is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one’s god.”… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
