My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.

You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.