The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
Lois McMaster BujoldReputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster BujoldForward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
Lois McMaster BujoldI donโt duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.
Lois McMaster BujoldThe real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
Lois McMaster BujoldHis outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
Lois McMaster Bujold