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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A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.
Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
Escapist literature gets a bad rap. But I think escape is important for a lot of people in a lot of places.
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
Any communitys arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.
The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.
When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, "He didn't hit me."