Lois McMaster Quotes
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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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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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
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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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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely." "I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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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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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.