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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7e04f3c | I'm not responsible for my weird ancestors. Quite the reverse. Exactly the inverse. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| e82a1cf | It just happens to be very important to me to win with the hand I was dealt. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 8c5b6ad | He seems to have this strange difficulty grasping that I actually mean what I say. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 2b2f6e3 | The will to be stupid is a very powerful force-- | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 2fc8e7b | You are what you do. Choose again, and change. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| ad8bd2f | They are the most insidious propagandists ever to cloak self-serving greed with pseudo-patriotism. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 40db608 | Permanent justice is well worth a temporary offended protest, I can assure you, Lieutenant. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 643a11d | Do you see assassination as an option, sir?""A compelling one." | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 78ce516 | Some stand-offs," said Galen, "are more equal than others." | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| b93ea47 | Men met energy wave with predictable results. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 3f883b8 | Be careful who you pretend to be. You might become it. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 2844279 | I grant you he's a genius, but don't you dare try to tell me he's sane. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 6c4c32a | Don't attempt to camouflage your real blame by taking more than your share. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 6ee25f0 | Lady Peace is the first hostage taken when economic discomfort rises. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 92b4a65 | I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is...the higher achievement. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 0e21101 | I swear," Mark whispered, "excess suspicion makes us bigger fools than excess trust does." | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| d354199 | If anyone was sane here, he swore it was by accident. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 3b1cd88 | His taste for heavily-armed girlfriends did have potential drawbacks. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| b3e3bad | Never give aversion therapy to a masochist. The results are unpredictable. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 2274062 | You can tell you're alive when somebody touches you back. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| b5ba466 | They hesitated. Ah, the downside of perfect obedience: crippled initiative. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 9094cd7 | Yet being beaten by your student was the ultimate victory, for a teacher. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| bef2d84 | I wouldn't be lying. I'd just be editing my report for length. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| e23f3a6 | Well, if you couldn't be good, at least you could be discreet. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| a1fea47 | Self-sedation seemed to require more alcohol than it used to, a problem easily remedied. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| d558681 | Well, good going with your captaincy. I know you worked for it, even though you pretend not to. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 25b07cb | It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| f27c013 | The last thing a monster wanted was a fellow to follow him around all day long with a mirror. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 0a280e2 | General. Prudence is one thing. Paranoia that can't tell friend from foe is quite another. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 1a285fd | Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 3b35ad7 | I despise internal investigations. Even if you win, you lose. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| fb6ebcb | I elect to be...myself. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 69cb4ac | I was never a mercenary, not ever. Not for one single minute. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| b952dfd | But I am not my father. I don't have to repeat his mistakes; I can invent bright-new ones. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| f51f77f | People complaining about their spouses always looked and sounded so ugly. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 5e158b6 | Power corrupts, but we want energy. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| f719283 | Love was long gone, in her. She got by on a starvation diet of loyalty these days. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| d552f9c | Cynicism did not seem nearly so impressively daring to her now as it had when she was twenty. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 23e62f5 | The laws of physics took precedence over heroic intent for the next couple of seconds. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| ffb989b | I am not here to vent my feelings. I am here to achieve my goals. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| 4bdb2c8 | Aim high. You may still miss the target but at least you won't shoot your foot off. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| db15908 | To get the right answer, one must first correctly frame the question. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| c4a0a14 | We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement. | Lois McMaster Bujold | ||
| b686924 | She probably felt about matrimony the way Miles felt about needle-grenade launchers. | Lois McMaster Bujold |