Quotes from Lois McMaster Bujold

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

A good friend of my son's is a son to me.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.