Lois McMaster BujoldThe gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business. ✨ The Curse of Chalion. Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, p. 94, 2000.371Reading
Lois McMaster BujoldThe Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.372Sadness
Lois McMaster BujoldForward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). Komarr, p.144, Baen Books372ReadingTime
Lois McMaster BujoldYour 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… ▶351Love
Lois McMaster BujoldThe 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 stu… ▶362Philosophy
Lois McMaster BujoldI'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brill… ▶374Time
Lois McMaster BujoldI wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.374Death
Lois McMaster BujoldHe's not too short. He's just... concentrated.374Time
Lois McMaster BujoldAny communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To c… ▶331HumanityReading
Lois McMaster BujoldWomen do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. ✨ Women of Other Worlds: Excursions Through Science Fiction and Feminism. Book edited by Tess Williams, 1… ▶331PoliticsReading
Lois McMaster BujoldAn honor is not diminished for being shared. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). Cordelia's Honor, p.170, Baen Books375Reading
Lois McMaster BujoldWhat you are is a question only you can answer. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). Young Miles, Baen Books342Reading
Lois McMaster BujoldI've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more i… ▶354ReadingThought
Lois McMaster BujoldEndure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). Cordelia's Honor, p.382, Baen Books… ▶332PhilosophyReadingSadness
Lois McMaster BujoldAnything worth achieving is worth overachieving.376Sadness
Lois McMaster BujoldOur children change us... whether they live or not. ✨ Barrayar. Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1991.321Reading
Lois McMaster BujoldThe principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there. ✨ A Civil Campaign. Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.354Reading
Lois McMaster BujoldI do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). Miles Erran… ▶344HumanityReadingSadness
Lois McMaster BujoldChange is possible.' 'Change is inevitable. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). Cordelia's Honor, p.371, Baen Books344Reading
Lois McMaster BujoldYou can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). Cordelia's Honor, p.352, Baen Books355ReadingTime
Lois McMaster BujoldIt was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1996). Memory (Hardcover), p.69, Baen Books312HopeLoveReading
Lois McMaster BujoldBut have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the… ▶334DeathLifeThought
Lois McMaster BujoldYou 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 childr… ▶356HumanityHumorReading
Lois McMaster BujoldIt’s important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil,… ▶357HumanityLifePhilosophy
Lois McMaster BujoldMiles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon an… ▶324DeathSadnessThought
Lois McMaster BujoldColonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely an underground installation? F… ▶335Time
Lois McMaster BujoldOn the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS346Sadness
Lois McMaster BujoldI miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (2000). A Civil Campaign, p.13, Baen Books335Reading
Lois McMaster BujoldBleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold, Bujold (1997). Young Miles, Baen Books357Reading
Lois McMaster BujoldThis wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. M… ▶281Philosophy
