Lois McMaster Quotes
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People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.
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Real destiny takes everything-the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure-and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.
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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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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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A price is something you get. A cost is something you lose.
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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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Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
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Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.
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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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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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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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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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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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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.
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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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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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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.
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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