Quotes from bujold lois mcmaster ii

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards.

Roots grow deep in the dark.

Old age ... is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough.

Being beaten by your student was the ultimate victory, for a teacher.

I had a teacher who used to reflect back my questions that way. I thought it was the Socratic method, and it impressed me immensely, until I found out he used it whenever he didn't know the answer.

Never argue with a pedant over nomenclature. It wastes your time and annoys the pedant.

You write what you know because -- like there's another choice? The trick is to try and know as much as possible.

Sometimes, insanity is not a tragedy. Sometimes, it's a strategy for survival. Sometimes ... it's a triumph.

The key of strategy ... is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory.

You can tell you're alive when somebody touches you back.

Don't underestimate the viciousness of academics when funding is at stake.

Shooting people to keep them from dying had logical flaws obvious to everyone.

A person's things can be a kind of exterior morphology of their mind.

The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.