“ Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth? Lois McMaster Bujold
“ I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there.... Lois McMaster Bujold
“ The book is not an object on the table; it is an event in the reader's mind. It's a process, through which an idea in my mind triggers an idea, more-or-less corresponding, in yours. The words on the p… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Royse Bergon: "I've seen your integrity in action. It...widened my world. I'd been raised by my father, who is a prudent, cautious man, always looking for men's hidden, selfish motivations. No one can… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in the sky, shocking and wrong. Reminding him that the daylight was the illusion, the scattering of light… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Hunting hawks did not belong in cages, no matter how much a man coveted their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They were far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of ill… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Cordelia not so much as first glance but gradually. And yet it seemed to work for them somehow. They made… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given. Lois McMaster Bujold
