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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I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.

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When I was a wee little kid," remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

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If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of fallible people talking to each other . . . ​

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One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

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That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.

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Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn't go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks

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Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.

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It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate." "Thirty-two stab wounds in the back, worst case of suicide they ever saw?" m...

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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

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Ethan thought he understood how a propaganda-stuffed young soldier must feel the first time in combat, stumbling by some sudden chance over his enemy's human face. He had gloried for a red moment in his power to break her. Now he stood foolishly with...

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Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods." "Do you?" "I believe they are not here, yes. It's a faith of sorts.

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(Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was not allowed to eat. Was it possible to be starved for so long as to forget the taste of food, for the pangs of hunger to burn out like ash? It seemed so...

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But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall—when you fall, you’re going to fall like a sta...

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It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow." "Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight." "That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.

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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

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I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

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He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

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So what’s the test?" "Ah, that’s the trick of it. It’s not a test. It’s real life.

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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

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It’s a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . ‘By this act, I bring one death into the world.’ One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

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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