East is west, up is down, and being falsely arrested for getting your C.O.'s throat cut is a simplification. I must be on Barrayar.

He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant--that the consequences would …

The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or des…

I have an aversion to closed doors anyway. You never know what's on the other side.

I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. 'We're surrounded.'

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by steppin…

This... is London.