513 Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real comfortable. If nothing can be done, then you're not some kind of shit for not doing it, and you can lie there and stink to yourself in perfect peace.

This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely.""I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.

In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.

For the courage of her heart, which I saw face down the greatest horrors I know without breaking. For the high and hungry intelligence of her mind, which never stops asking questions, nor thinking about the answers. For the spark of her spirit, which could teach bonfires how to burn. That's three. Enough for going on with. All this is set beside me, and you ask me instead if I want dirt? I do not understand farmers

It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over—at your age, too.

She was alone, uninhabited, she was herself again, after five months of that strange doubled existence.

Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.

It was all sympathetic magic. When you couldn't do something truly useful, you tended to vent the pent-up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.