“On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS”
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Falling Free
Źródło: Falling Free
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Lois McMaster Bujold: Cytaty po angielsku
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Diplomatic Immunity
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
"Putting It Together" p. 6
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
Źródło: Cordelia's Honor
“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Wariant: When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
Źródło: Miles Errant
“Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Źródło: A Civil Campaign
“I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.”
Lois McMaster Bujold książka The warrior's Apprentice
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Źródło: Cordelia's Honor
Kontekst: Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.
“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Diplomatic Immunity
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
Lois McMaster Bujold książka The Vor Game
Źródło: The Vor Game
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Mirror Dance
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Brothers in Arms
Wariant: "Don't panic."
"I'm not panicking, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining."
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Paladin of Souls
Źródło: Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 44
“The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Źródło: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Źródło: Young Miles
“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”
Lois McMaster Bujold Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Źródło: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“You try to give away what you want yourself.”
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Memory
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?”
Lois McMaster Bujold The Curse of Chalion
Źródło: The Curse of Chalion
“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Paladin of Souls
Źródło: Paladin of Souls
Lois McMaster Bujold książka Memory
Źródło: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Kontekst: "You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."
"And what do you find on the other side? When you go on?"
"Your life again. What else?"
"Is that a promise?"
"It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on."
“My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.”
Lois McMaster Bujold A Civil Campaign
Źródło: A Civil Campaign
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