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Lois McMaster Bujold quotes - page 20
Now, you had that doctorate in Barrayaran history. Do any really interesting District succession squabbles spring to your memory?” "Lord Midnight the horse,” Galeni replied at once. "Who always voted ‘neigh.'
Lois McMaster Bujold
No,” said his father, "you don't have to smile. But if you're really asking for advice from my accumulated experience, I'm saying Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
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He smiled, recapturing her hand. "A very wise woman once told me-you just go on. I've never encountered any good advice that didn't boil down to that, in the end. Not even my father's.”.
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"I am a bodyguard by trade,” she said, evidently continuing a conversation with Lady Vorpatril. "How can I kick someone's teeth in wearing this?” "A woman wearing that suit, my dear, will have volunteers to kick in annoying persons' teeth for her,” said Lady Alys.
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Your talent for making interesting new enemies has evidently not deserted you.
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I smell diplomacy. Miles grimaced.
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There is a great deal of sanity to be saved in letting the past go, and moving on.
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He stared at the two bundles more than filling his lap in a kind of cosmic amazement. "We did it,” he muttered to Ekaterin, now perching on the chair arm. "Why didn't anybody stop us? Why aren't there more regulations about this sort of thing? What fool in their right mind would put me in charge of a baby? Two babies?”.
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Is that going to be a problem?” said Ivan. "Definitely. I just don't know what kind, yet. Or whose.
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"What do you see in that Barrayaran boy, anyway?” the Baronne asked querulously, dodging back despite Tej's best efforts. "He just doesn't seem very ambitious.” "Mm,” said Tej. One woman's defect is another woman's delight? "I suppose...it's all the things he sees in me.” That you don't.
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"I didn't know he had days off,” said Enrique, sounding vaguely puzzled. Naturally enough; Enrique didn't exactly take breaks either, or at least not scheduled ones, his time being divided into days with too many things to do, and days with far too many things to do-much like her own, Ekaterin reflected ruefully.
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Yani seemed a time-traveler who had found out the hard way that he did not like his destination any better than his point of departure, failed to notice the one common factor was himself, and now could not go back.
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He didn't exactly have a plan, yet. More of a stab in the dark. He still wasn't sure what his blade would connect with...
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He'd underestimated how much work normal healthy children would take, even with all the help his money and position could buy. For there were some tasks you didn't want to delegate, because then you'd be missing the best parts.
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She considered seventy-six. It...made no sense. Except that sometime in the past three years, she had switched from counting her years not up from birth, but back from death-a grab-bag of time not growing, but shrinking, use it or lose it.
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A contractor, early? Really? Already your tale begins to resemble some drunken hallucination.
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I don't see people, young or otherwise, as having a right to be idiots. It's just impractical to try to stop them, unless they're hurting somebody, and this sport-extreme art?-does not appear to be lethal.
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Reading is an active and elusive experience. Every reader, reading exactly the same text, will have a slightly different reading experience depending on what s/he projects into the words s/he sees, what strings of meaning and association those words call up in his/her (always) private mind. One can never therefore, talk about the quality of a book separately from the quality of the mind that is creating it by reading it, in the only place books live, in the secret mind.
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I attack both from the logic-side, scribbling outline after outline, and the long-walk relaxed-visualization-side, and while neither alone is enough, the combination synergizes. Which is just a fancy way of saying, "I think about it a lot, day and night."
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Boleso's men, Ingrey was reminded, were out of the habit of questioning the sense of their superiors' orders. Or perhaps it was that any who dared were got rid of, one way or another, and these were the remainder. Residue. Scum.
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Oswin was the most perfect servant of the Father, always so concerned for figuring out the exact rules and getting himself on the right side of them. Or them on the left side of him.
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