When you canโt do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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 BujoldAs the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Lois McMaster BujoldItโs 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, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
Lois McMaster Bujold