Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

Our Children Change Us… Whether They Live Or Not.

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Some Prices Are Just Too High, No Matter How Much You May Want The Prize. The One Thing You Can’t Trade For Your Heart’s Desire Is Your Heart.

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If The Truth Doesn’t Save Us, What Does That Say About Us?

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Honesty Is The Only Way With Anyone, When You’ll Be So Close As To Be Living Inside Each Other’s Skins.

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An Honor Is Not Diminished For Being Shared.

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There Are Always Survivors At A Massacre. Among The Victors, If Nowhere Else.

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I Don’t Confuse Greatness With Perfection. To Be Great Anyhow Is?The Higher Achievement.

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Exile, For No Other Motive Than Ease, Would Be The Last Defeat, With No Seed Of Future Victory In It.

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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.

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Children Might Or Might Not Be A Blessing, But To Create Them And Then Fail Them Was Surely Damnation.

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A Good Friend Of My Son’s Is A Son To Me.

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I Take It As A Man’s Duty To Restrain Himself.

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You Try To Give Away What You Want Yourself.

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You Don’t Pay Back Your Parents. You Can’t. The Debt You Owe Them Gets Collected By Your Children, Who Hand It Down In Turn. It’s A Sort Of Entailment. Or If You Don’t Have Children Of The Body, It’s Left As A Debt To Your Common Humanity. Or To Your God, If You Possess Or Are Possessed By One.

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If You Make It Plain You Like People, It’s Hard For Them To Resist Liking You Back.

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Reputation Is What Other People Know About You. Honor Is What You Know About Yourself.

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The Dead Cannot Cry Out For Justice; It Is A Duty Of The Living To Do So For Them.

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You Couldn’t Be That Good And Not Know It, Somewhere In Your Secret Heart, However Much You’d Been Abused Into Affecting Public Humility.

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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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If Power Was An Illusion, Wasn’t Weakness Necessarily One Also?

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When You Give Each Other Everything, It Becomes An Even Trade. Each Wins All.

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Adversity Does Teach Who Your Real Friends Are.

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My Home Is Not A Place, It Is People.

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Guard Your Honor. Let Your Reputation Fall Where It Will. And Outlive The Bastards.

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Some Men Just Aren’t Cut Out For Paternity. Better They Should Realize It Before And Not After They Become Responsible For A Son.

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Adulthood Isn’t An Award They’ll Give You For Being A Good Child. You Can Waste… Years, Trying To Get Someone To Give That Respect To You, As Though It Were A Sort Of Promotion Or Raise In Pay. If Only You Do Enough, If Only You Are Good Enough. No. You Have To Just… Take It. Give It To Yourself, I Suppose. Say, I’m Sorry You Feel Like That And Walk Away. But That’s Hard.

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