513 Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

God save me from another such victory.

But when he’s cut, I bleed.

...a great man. But...not quite great enough.

Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too

It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’ One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

Divide the infinite future into five-minute blocks, and take them one by one.

It made her furious. All Kareen's courage of endurance had given her nothing. Lady Vorpatril's brave and bloody birth-giving was taken for granted, but whack off some idiot's head and you were really somebody, by God--!

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

. . . principles come and go, but . . . human souls are immortal, and you should therefore throw in your lot with the greater part.