Lois McMaster Quotes
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It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
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Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal.
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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.
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I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.
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Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.
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Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.
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I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
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He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
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One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine. "Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous." Vordarian choked, sputtering.
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All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.
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Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
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I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.
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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.