Lois McMaster Quotes
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If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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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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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.
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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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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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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
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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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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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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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I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
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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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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.