If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.
Quotes from The Hallowed Hunt — Lois McMaster Bujold
born 1949 United States
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Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction.
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It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.
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I learned long ago not to exhaust myself grappling problems that time will carry away on its tide.
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"The gods have no hands in this world but ours. If we fail Them, where then can They turn?"
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Magical powers worked sometimes; material powers worked all the time.
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Heaven weeps, but free will is sacred. The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.
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“High court politics,” said Ingrey slowly, “are as godless as anything I know.”
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"Taste the betrayal of the gods, then; I have dined on it for ages."
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Those who are unwilling to admit error are fated to repeat it?
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Too little payment for a crime, too much for an accident.
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Indifference served him quite as well as integrity.
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Her lips curved up. “That’s very Ingrey of you, Ingrey. Always look on the dark side.”
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“Inventing as you go, are you?”
“Yes, I am quite godlike in that way, if no other.”
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“It must have been an interesting chat. Did Cumril survive it?”
“Temporarily.”
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It still felt like hauling buckets from a well of memory with a rope that burned his hands.
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I saw no reason to stop my life for other people’s theories.
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Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lois McMaster Bujold (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.