All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. — 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
Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?' — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not… — 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
