More from Lois McMaster Bujold

  1. Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you…
  2. Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
  3. A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you coun…
  4. If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
  5. A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean someth…
  6. Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and t…
  7. Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
  8. When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

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