Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996 quotes
"You try to give away what you want yourself."
Take this quote mobile"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?"
"I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased."
"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it."