Lois McMaster Bujold quotes - page 13

Acting or reacting, we carry him in us. You can't walk away from him any more than I can. Whether you travel toward or away, he'll be the compass. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
You're so hopelessly monosexual, Miles. View quote
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She's just as bad as he is! God help me. View quote
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I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure. And I don't trust myself anymore. I don't know what's happened to my edge. Lost it in a strange land. View quote
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With all this manure around, there's got to be a pony someplace. View quote
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It's not a comfortable thing, to be chosen so. I tried to avoid it for a long time, but God finds ways of dealing with draft dodgers. View quote
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When I was twenty, I chose my life. It wasn't this one. View quote
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Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. View quote
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Mark's own taste in women, if ever he should live to exercise it, ran more to something like that little blonde clone...Somebody short, soft, pink, timid, somebody who wouldn't kill and eat him after they mated. View quote
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Was this the trick of it? Secrets so dire as to be unspeakable, thoughts so frightening as to make clear young voices mute, kicked out into the open with blunt ironic humor. And suddenly the dire didn't loom so darkly any more, and fear shrank, and anyone could say anything. And the unbearable seemed a little easier to lift. View quote
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I don't hate him. I can't say I worship him, either. But when he's cut, I bleed. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Oh, but he's my monster. View quote
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You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them. View quote
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I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure. View quote
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Don't panic. View quote
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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives. View quote
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. View quote
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The loonies who sought a glorious death in battle found it very early on. This rapidly cleared the chain of command of the accumulated fools. View quote
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Be passionate, be picky, have enough self-criticism to demand of yourself your best and not sort of let it slide by. And remember that the greatest defect any piece of fiction can have is not to be finished. View quote
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The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again. View quote
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If you're trying to keep it a secret, Miles, why are you going around telling everyone"? (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? View quote
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Organization seemed to be the key. View quote
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The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. View quote
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Which is just a fancy way of saying, "I think about it a lot, day and night." View quote
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