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Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

More from Lois McMaster Bujold

  1. When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
  2. Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.
  3. 'You must kill if you expect to survive.'
  4. No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
  5. 'It didn't work, so let's do it some more'? In my line of work, they call that military stupidity. I don't know what they call it in civili…
  6. Vorreedi stated dangerously, 'I am not a mushroom, Lieutenant Vorkosigan.'
  7. And what goes on in the head of a walking dead man? What personal failure could he possibly fear more than death itself?
  8. In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try.

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Topics in this quote

  • duty
  • heroism
  • motive
  • secrecy

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