Quotes from Komarr — Lois McMaster Bujold
born 1949 United States
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Real expertise, the kind that means you can’t be intimidated or, or…persuaded to go along with something stupid because you think everyone in the universe knows more than you do.
Komarr (1998)
The hostage game is a bad game, a sad and ugly game that’s a lot easier to start than end. The worst versions I’ve seen ended up with neither side in control, or getting anything they wanted. And the people who stand to lose the most in it frequently aren’t even playing.
Komarr (1998)
Oh hell. Have you fallen in love with this woman, idiot boy?
Um. Yeah.
He’d been falling for days, he realized in retrospect. It was just that he’d finally hit the ground.
Komarr (1998)
“They seem more like toys than jewels, but I have to admit, they’re striking.”
“Oh, yes, a typical tech toy. High-end this year, everywhere next year, nowhere after that, till the antiquarians’ revival.”
Komarr (1998)
“We’ll never know the whole truth, I suppose,” said Venier.
Was that supposed to be a concession? “You can be told the whole truth all day long, but if you won’t believe it, then no, I don’t suppose you ever will never know it.”
Komarr (1998)
If you could go back in time and change things…
The only moment in time you could change things was the elusive now, which slipped through your fingers as fast as you could think about it.
Komarr (1998)
How could you tell the difference between not liking sex, and not liking the only person you’d ever done sex with?
Yet she was almost desperate for touch, mere affection untainted by the indignities of the erotic.
Komarr (1998)
One’s career might depend solely on one’s own efforts, but marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion. Perhaps it was just as well. If people were too sensible, the human race might well come to an end. Evolution favored the maximum production of children, not of happiness.
Komarr (1998)
People have some very odd illusions about power. Mostly it consists of finding a parade and nipping over to place yourself at the head of the band. Just as eloquence consists of persuading people of things they desperately want to believe. Demagoguery, I suppose, is eloquence sliding to some least moral energy level.
Komarr (1998)