Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold

About Lois McMaster Bujold:

Lois McMaster Bujold is an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record, not counting his Retro Hugo. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award. In 2013 she was awarded the Forry Award.
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your...

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Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

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Take heart, sir," Cazaril consoled him. "It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an for your grandson.

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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But h...

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to make one start acting like a child than to be treated like one. It's so infuriating. It took me the longest time to figure out how to stop falling int...

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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

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Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.

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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins.

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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

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everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

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[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I feeling stupid.

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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific kn...

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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

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It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.

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But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

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I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

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Author Bio

  • NameLois McMaster Bujold
  • DescriptionScience Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
  • BornNovember 2, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsNebula Award; Prometheus Award - Hall Of Fame