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
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a… — 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
This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing. — 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
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their… — 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
Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry,… — 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
