I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live. — 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
When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. — 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
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup… — 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
