Source: Komarr
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Famous Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes
“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”
Source: Diplomatic Immunity
“The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.”
“I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.”
“An honor is not diminished for being shared.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
Source: Vorkosigan's Game
“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
Source: Mirror Dance
“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
Source: Vorkosigan's Game
“Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?”
“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
Source: Vorkosigan's Game
“Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”
Source: Komarr
“Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.”
Source: A Civil Campaign
“A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.”
Source: Vorkosigan's Game
“I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.”
Source: Young Miles
Source: Mirror Dance
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.”
“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”
Source: Diplomatic Immunity
“What you are is a question only you can answer.”
Source: Young Miles
Source: Vorkosigan's Game
“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“The good face pain. But the great? They embrace it.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“You try to give away what you want yourself.”
Source: Memory (Hardcover)
Source: A Civil Campaign
Source: Cryoburn
“The world is made by the people who show up for the job.”
Source: Cryoburn
Source: Cryoburn
“History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.”
Source: Cryoburn