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Lois McMaster Bujold quotes

American Writer November 2, 1949

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Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference..."
Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there.... Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the..."
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold
Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? From a technical perspective. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any..."
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. Lois McMaster Bujold
Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Lois McMaster Bujold
It was suicide, wasn't it?"In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate."Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?" murmured Ivan, clearly fascinated by the gossip."Exactly, my lord. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to..."
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. Lois McMaster Bujold
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 off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into..."
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you..."
We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you flinch or falter. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving."
Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving. Lois McMaster Bujold
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name. Lois McMaster Bujold
Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction. Lois McMaster Bujold
The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth. Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujold quote: "If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart."
If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart. Lois McMaster Bujold

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