Lois McMaster
Lois McMaster
motivational mirrors punishment
It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
momentum virtue dare
I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
heaven storm ifs
I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
real color black
Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.
library overcoming gone
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
want idiot objects
I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
real destiny blood
Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
prayer hate men
Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
winning games ifs
If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
hands wounds-and-scars choices
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
be-careful careful
You have to be careful who you let define your good.
fall honor reputation
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
feet soul feelings
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.
change enemy mind
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.