“ [Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his closet door to discover that Zap the Cat, having penetrated the security of Vorkosigan House throug… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’ One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . .… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and then apologizing. Inconsistent, Father.He shuffled back and forth across the room again, and his pain bu… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ When I was a wee little kid," remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing. 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
“ The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child than to be treated like one. It's so infuriating. It took me the… 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 how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you. 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 palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side,… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Miles added it to his life's lessons list. Call it Rule 27B. Never make key tactical decisions while having electro-convulsive seizures. Lois McMaster Bujold
