Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.

I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Honor is what you know about yourself.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

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

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going to cover my funeral expenses, son?" Splendidly. Banners, dancing girls, and enough beer to float your coffin to Valhalla." - Miles coaxing Ky Tung to agree to an almost suicidal mission

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.