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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 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.
Lois McMaster
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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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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.
Lois McMaster -
No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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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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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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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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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 began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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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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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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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
Lois McMaster
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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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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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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.
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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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The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
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My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
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