Lois McMaster Bujold

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Rish glanced uneasily at the outside door. “We can’t stay here. Someone else could come in or out at any moment. Better…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“You would -- you would take him into Your heaven, my lord?" asked Ingrey in astonishment and outrage. "He slew, not in…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Tej nodded again. “Then he turned up on my front steps. I thought he might be a capper stalking me. So I…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Cordelia – “Why so rough?” Aral – “It’s very poor. It was the town center during the time Isolation. And it hasn’t…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Talking to the gods had been a much more comfortable proposition when there had seemed no danger of Their talking back.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Ekaterin glanced back over her shoulder. “He didn’t look very well this morning, Pym. You really shouldn’t have let him get out…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“It would be almost a public service to dangle the alternatives in front of the widow before Miles got her mind all…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds." He grinned. "Onions don't…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Miles’s pause had lasted just a little too long. Genially taking his turn to fill it, Illyan turned to Ekaterin. “Speaking of…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.”

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

— Lois McMaster Bujold