Barrayar

Lois McMaster Bujold

Top 10 Best Quotes

“My home is not a place, it is people.”

“But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”

“One step at a time,” Vorkosigan returned grimly, “I can walk around the world. Watch me.”

“Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.”

“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”

“Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.”

“One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.”

“It’s not that I’m not upset; it’s just that I’m too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.”

“Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.”

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