Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold
Lois McMaster Bujoldis an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record, not counting his Retro Hugo. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 November 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.
A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
Our children change us.. whether they live or not.
It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction.
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste ears, 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
I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
And this was your friend?" Cordelia raised her eyebrows. "Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.