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Quotes from Falling Free — Lois McMaster Bujold

born 1949 United States

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22 quotes

Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you.

Falling Free (1988)

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)

He gave himself up to God and pressed the button.

Falling Free (1988)

Even soldiers in battle have to be brought to a special state of mental excitement to shoot total strangers.

Falling Free (1988)

On the sixth day God saw He couldn’t do it all, it read, so He created engineers.

Falling Free (1988)

God’s not here. Somebody’s got to fill in.

Falling Free (1988)

There are weapons all around us here, we just don’t recognize them because we call them “tools.”

Falling Free (1988)

And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.

Falling Free (1988)

Claire, listen to me. The proper response to Bruce isn’t suicide, it’s murder.

Falling Free (1988)

He loathed letting her push his buttons; still, she had a valid point: cover-your-ass was a fundamental rule for survival even of the fittest.

Falling Free (1988)

Of all the times to pick for this outbreak of idiocy, this has gotta be the worst possible. It’s got to be deliberate. Nothing this fouled up could be by chance.

Falling Free (1988)

“The trouble with you, Ti,” lectured Leo kindly, “is that you lack teaching experience. If you had, you’d have faith that the most unlikely people can learn the most amazing things.”

Falling Free (1988)

GalacTech’s not God, Claire. You shouldn’t have to sacrifice your firstborn to it.

Falling Free (1988)

We make our own luck. And it’s my responsibility to see it’s good and not bad.

Falling Free (1988)

I don’t know whose judgement is worse, yours or the jerk’s who hired you—

Falling Free (1988)

“We’ve run into a problem, Leo.”
“But of course. Who ever tracks me down to impart good news?

Falling Free (1988)

The line of logic trailed off in confusion; he turned his thoughts impatiently from it. Mental wheel-spinning, as unproductive as philosophy class in college.

Falling Free (1988)

Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees—M.S., M.D., Ph.D...

Falling Free (1988)

“I could bring almost nothing—I scarcely knew what to choose.”
“Think of the vast amounts of money we shall save on shipping charges, then.”

Falling Free (1988)

Attribution

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