Lois McMaster Quotes
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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.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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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
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When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.
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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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My home is not a place, it is people.
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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.
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.
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The world is made by the people who show up for the job.
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My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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Have you ever heard the phrase, Living well is the best revenge?" "Where I come from, someone's head in a bag is generally considered the best revenge
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I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
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Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.