Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

born 1949 United States

Lois McMaster Bujold (born 2 November 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works, most noted for the works in her Vorkosigan Saga.

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Also known as: Bujold, Lois McMaster

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I expect death will still be cheap and always available, doesn’t take high tech.

Cryoburn (2010)

There’s nothing like the threat of imminent death to force one to delegate.

Diplomatic Immunity (2002)

People complaining about their spouses always looked and sounded so ugly.

Komarr (1998)

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.

A Civil Campaign (1999)

Anyway, she now realized, the military histories she’d read had left out the most important part; they never told what happened to people’s babies.

Barrayar (1991)

The sharpest fall of all, from life to death.

Penric's Demon (2015)

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, boy, choose learning. It works more of the time.

Falling Free (1988)

Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal. That’s all.

Falling Free (1988)

The man who assumes everything is a lie is at least as mistaken as the one who assumes everything is true. If no guarantee can suit you, perhaps the flaw is not in the guarantee, but in you.

Brothers in Arms (1989)

If suspicion was the deadliest possible insult, then trust was always right, even if it was mistaken.

Komarr (1998)

The entire center of her life was a blackened waste, its long years not to be recovered nor replaced.

Paladin of Souls (2003)

I learned long ago not to exhaust myself grappling problems that time will carry away on its tide.

The Hallowed Hunt (2005)

Once you had delegated the best people to do a job for you, you had to trust both them and your judgment.

Komarr (1998)

Permanent justice is well worth a temporary offended protest, I can assure you, Lieutenant.

Brothers in Arms (1989)

"The gods have no hands in this world but ours. If we fail Them, where then can They turn?"

The Hallowed Hunt (2005)

Reform is resisted by everyone who has an interest in it not taking place at their expense.

Penric's Mission (2016)

If you’re just now finding out that this world is unjust, well, you’re behind the times.

A Civil Campaign (1999)

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Diplomatic Immunity (2002)

Between justice and genocide there is, in the long run, no middle ground.

Brothers in Arms (1989)

He should be keeping reality and fantasy separate in his own mind, at least, even while mixing them as much as possible in others’.

The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lois McMaster Bujold (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.