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Quelle: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 58
"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 54
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“Total strangers trying to kill me make me feel right at home.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees — M. S., M. D., Ph. D…”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
Quelle: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 61
“I would fight the world for you, but I'm damned if I can figure out how to save you from yourself.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“Let he who is without sin cast the first lure.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“Parallels, spirals, and reflections are some of my favorite literary patterns.”
"Putting It Together" p. 20
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
“I don't hate him. I can't say I worship him, either. But when he's cut, I bleed.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
She paused a long time, and looked up to meet her mother’s eyes squarely. “But when he’s cut, I bleed.”
Chapter 12 (p. 184)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“Mine is not a theology of the elect. I intend to preach to the masses. Even the sinners.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
“Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
“If it ever came down to exerting power by force, it would mean I'd already lost it.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Quelle: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 40)
“I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“Behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)
“If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Mountains of Mourning (1989)
“It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vorkosigan Saga
This seems to be derived from a statement attributed to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, and which she regularly used in her public addresses: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Quelle: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379
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