7 Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes on Survival

Lois McMaster Bujold quotes on survival

14. 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.

18. Live, and so confound our enemies.

36. The loonies who sought a glorious death in battle found it very early on. This rapidly cleared the chain of command of the accumulated fools. The survivors were those who learned to fight dirty, and live, and fight another day, and win, and win, and win, and for whom nothing, not comfort, or security, not family for friends for their immortal souls, was more important than winning. Dead men are losers by definition. Survival and victory. They weren't supermen, or immune to pain. They sweated in confusion and darkness. And ... they won.

47. And what goes on in the head of a walking dead man? What personal failure could he possibly fear more than death itself?

49. 'You must kill if you expect to survive.'

65. 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 counterattack.

85. There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.