Lois McMaster Bujold

"Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it."

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Top Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

"If you can't do what you want, do what you can."

"It's important that someone celebrate our existence... 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."

"A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something."

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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards."

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