Lois+McMaster+Bujold

=Lois McMaster Bujold=

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1. Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

2. If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

3. 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?

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

5. Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.

6. If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

7. 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.

8. I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.

9. If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

10. It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.

11. Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

12. You try to give away what you want yourself.

13. I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.

14. An honor is not diminished for being shared.

15. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.

16. If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

17. Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

18. Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.

19. When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

20. You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

21. You have to be careful who you let define your good.

22. If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

23. What you are is a question only you can answer.

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