More from Lois McMaster Bujold

  1. Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
  2. It's... a transcendental act. Making life. I thought about that when I was carrying Miles. 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.'…
  3. Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
  4. You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
  5. Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
  6. Live, and so confound our enemies.
  7. But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on rega…
  8. Our children change us:whether they live or not.

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