“The world is made by the people who show up for the job.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?"
"Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Miles leaned forward and spoke earnestly into the secure holovid recorder. "I just want you to know, Gregor, that if the planet melts down over all this, it wasn't my fault. The trip-wire was laid long before I stumbled across it.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“I wonder if we should add a box to tick off -- Reason for travel: creepy planetary conquest... no, I suppose not.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of fallible people talking to each other . . . ”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. "Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Cute-and-furry was always an easier sell than carapaced-and-multilegged, for some obscure reason. Grownups, so unreasonable...”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“When I was a wee little kid," remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“The problem has just suddenly become a lot more interesting. Er, difficult. It's just become a bit more difficult.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“The world is made by the people who show up for the job,”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“We just try to go from day to day. Surprising where you can end up, that way.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“You bastards are on the top of Imperial Lord Auditor Miles Vorkosigan's very own shit list now, you bet. But under what name? Only five days on this benighted world, and already total strangers are trying to kill me.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Aunt Lorna buys all our shoes big to grow into," Mina explained to Miles-san. "That's why they slip around like that." Lieutenant Johannes, peering doubtfully into the depths of the refrigerator, murmured, "Beer... ?" "Do you like beer, Mina?" Miles-san asked. She shook her head, making her straight black hair swing around her chin. "Thought not, somehow. You'll have to do better, Johannes. Aren't all you attaché fellows supposed to be ImpSec trained? Improvise!”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Is kidnapping kidnappers still kidnapping?" Miles mused. "Yes," said Roic, unhelpfully. "Not that NewEgypt is likely to bring charges." "Naw, they'd do something else." "I am reminded. I could have Suze freeze and store them for us, I suppose. Technically." Roic gave him the Look. "If push came to shove. As a Kibou-daini problem-solving technique, there seems to be precedent." Roic said nothing, firmly.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Not a problem," Miles-san said. "Then, if everything proves workable, we can go on to the next step." "What is the next step?" asked Consul Vorlynkin, in fascinated tones. He looked like a man staring at a groundcar wreck. In slow motion. That he was in. "Securing Madame Sato." "How?" "I'm going to have to do a spot more research first, to devise the optimum ploy. According to the public records, she's being kept at the NewEgypt facility out in the Cryopolis here in Northbridge, which is actually pretty convenient." Miles-san's lips drew back on a peculiar grin. "It could be just like old times.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
“Taura would have been dead of old age at twenty-standard without the medical intervention that the Dendarii medics and later the Duronas had supplied her. Roic had met her twice, desperately memorably, the first time when she'd attended m'lord's wedding, the second when m'lord and Roic had traveled to Escobar to attend her last days in the Durona hospice.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, quote from CryoBurn
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― Elif Shafak, quote from Honor
“I thought if I were beautiful enough, all my dreams would come true. But you don't steady beautiful forever; one day you wake up and it's gone, and then where are you? Dreams are made with blood and sweat and tears.”
― Ryū Murakami, quote from Coin Locker Babies
“I said it. I like to quote myself. I am not modest.”
― Gore Vidal, quote from Creation
“No, I did not think of him. When a man is hunted like a wild beast he forgets there is a God, a heaven. He forgets every thing in his struggle to get beyond the reach of the bloodhounds.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, quote from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
“The Larks were bumbling entrepreneurs and petty thieves, but they were also self-deceived. While their moral standards for the rest of the world were rigid, they were always able to find excuses for their own shortcomings. It is these people really, said my father, small-time hypocrites, who may in special cases be capable of monstrous acts if given the chance.”
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