Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

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• The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
• Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire…
• What you are is a question only you can answer.
• Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, trying to get someone to give that respect to…
• The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
• It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
• Our children change us.. whether they live or not.
• Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
• When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
• I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'
• Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil…
• A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
• All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals,…
• My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
• As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
• If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
• Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next…
• When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
• Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

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