“ 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 mysteri… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age. 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
“ We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on.""What do you find on the other side? When you go on?"She shrugged. "Your life again. What… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ People do get hypnotized by the hard choices and stop looking at the alternatives. The will to be stupid is a powerful force Lois McMaster Bujold
“ The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry—even if he is at a convenient height for it. 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 t… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ You were kind.”Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”Bergon shook his head. “Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore… Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.- Miles Vorkosigan Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too Lois McMaster Bujold
“ Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. 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
“ Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you. Lois McMaster Bujold
“ You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's… Lois McMaster Bujold
