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Quotes from Ethan of Athos — Lois McMaster Bujold

born 1949 United States

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Change is a function of time and experience, and time is implacable.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

As long as I’m going to commit a crime, let it be a perfect one.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

Innocence might be bliss, but ignorance was demonstrably hell.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

A fool is twice a fool who tries to conceal it.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

Life with women did not just induce strange behavior, it appeared; it induced very strange behavior.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

Some places have religion. Here we have safety drills.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

Quinn ignored the admonition with a verve bordering, Ethan thought, on the anti-social.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

The rest of the universe was disappointing at first glance.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

Curiosity is not a theological virtue.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

Do not mistake charm for virtue.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

Women. Uterine replicators with legs, as it were.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

“The probabilities would now seem to lean that way,” agreed Millisor. “I doubt everything, you see.”
Ethan thought this over. “Encountering the truth must be horribly confusing for you, then.”
Millisor’s lips twitched dryly. “Fortunately, it happens very seldom.”

Ethan of Athos (1986)

Ethan had never found himself clinging to a cusp of human history. The trouble with the position, he found, was that in whatever direction you looked there fell away a glassy, uncontrollable slide down to a strange future you would then have to live in. He had never wanted to pray more, nor been less sure that it would do any good.

Ethan of Athos (1986)

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