Lois McMaster Bujold quotes
"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made ev"
"Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive."
"Our children change uswhether they live or not."
"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to c"
"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation."
"My home is not a place, it is people."
"Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win."
"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
"Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards."
"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"
