If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept? — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm… — 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
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
