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Lois McMaster Bujold quotes - page 19
It wasn't, he swore, that he picked up so many women. Compared to Ivan, he was practically celibate. It was just that he never put any down. The accumulation could become downright embarrassing, over a long enough time-span.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Their good fortune, Mark decided, was divided exactly fifty-fifty; Miles got the good luck, and he got the rest.
Lois McMaster Bujold
You can't just...ignore them out of existence though apparently that's exactly what you've been attempting.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Self-sedation seemed to require more alcohol than it used to, a problem easily remedied.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you can't win, change the game.” Ivan twitched a brow upward. "If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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 else?” "Is that a promise?” She picked up a pebble, fingered it, and tossed it into the water. The moon-lines bloomed and danced. "It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Suicide wasn't an option for me anymore, I found. Not like good old adolescent angst. I'm no longer of the secret opinion that death will somehow overlook me if I don't do something personally about it. And give life...it seems stupid not to make the most of what I do have. Not to mention deucedly ungrateful.
Lois McMaster Bujold
What are you doing?” the Countess asked.... "Just...wrestling with temptation.” Illyan's voice came back, amused. "Who's winning?” Miles's eye followed the cracks in the plaster, overhead. His voice came out high and light, on a sigh: "I think...I'm going for the best two falls out of three.
Lois McMaster Bujold
People complaining about their spouses always looked and sounded so ugly.
Lois McMaster Bujold
How could you tell the difference between not liking sex, and not liking the only person you'd ever done sex with? Yet she was almost desperate for touch, mere affection untainted by the indignities of the erotic.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The laws of physics took precedence over heroic intent for the next couple of seconds.
Lois McMaster Bujold
At the moment I have very little evidence and lots of theories. I'm itching to reverse the proportions.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Oh hell. Have you fallen in love with this woman, idiot boy? Um. Yeah.
Lois McMaster Bujold
To get the right answer, one must first correctly frame the question.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Knowledge might not be power, but ignorance was definitely weakness, and so was poverty.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Have you determined if it is meant to be a weapon at all?” she said. "We've got some very dead people to account for,” Miles pointed out. "That, alas, does not necessarily require a weapon.” Professor Vorthys said. "Carelessness, stupidity, haste, and ignorance are quite as powerfully destructive forces as homicidal intent.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The hostage game is a bad game, a sad and ugly game that's a lot easier to start than end. The worst versions I've seen ended up with neither side in control, or getting anything they wanted. And the people who stand to lose the most in it frequently aren't even playing.
Lois McMaster Bujold
He couldn't make this go faster by pushing harder.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Mark had a Thing about Miles. Thing was not accepted psychoscientific terminology, she'd been informed by his twinkling therapist, but there was scarcely another term with the scope and flexibility to take in the whole complexity of the...Thing.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Kareen was by no means sure Mark was a potential husband. He was still working his heart out on becoming a potential human being.
Lois McMaster Bujold
All Mark knew was that if it came down to a choice between Kareen and oxygen, he'd prefer to give up oxygen, thanks.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you're just now finding out that this world is unjust, well, you're behind the times.
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