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Lois McMaster Bujold quotes

American Writer November 2, 1949

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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 yell going through the door. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And..."
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Not that I haven't leaped upinto the blinding light of..."
Not that I haven't leaped upinto the blinding light of competence now and then.It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade...."
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. Lois McMaster Bujold
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 is your heart. Lois McMaster Bujold
He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried flossing his teeth. Then he tried making little green designs with tiny, tiny knots. Then he hit on the idea of weaving messages. Could he macram "Help, I am a prisoner . . ." and plant it on the back of someone's jacket by static charge? If someone ever came back, that is? He got as far as a delicate gossamer H, E, L, caught the thread on a hangnail while rubbing his stubbled chin, and reduced... Lois McMaster Bujold
That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?"
If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also? Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a..."
Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take..."
Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "The world is made by the people who show up for the job."
The world is made by the people who show up for the job. Lois McMaster Bujold
Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word."Equals?" Miles hazarded."Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously. Lois McMaster Bujold
People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf. Lois McMaster Bujold
I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange. Lois McMaster Bujold
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir. Lois McMaster Bujold

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