4 Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Legacy

Lois McMaster Bujold quotes on legacy

56. You can't give power away and keep it simultaneously. Except posthumously.

73. You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

93. How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

141. Acting or reacting, we carry him in us. You can't walk away from him any more than I can. Whether you travel toward or away, he'll be the compass. He'll be the glass, full of subtle colors and astigmatisms, through which all new things will be viewed. I too have a father who haunts me, and I know.