Lois McMaster Quotes
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If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?
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Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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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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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.
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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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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
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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 don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
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Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Koudelka looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" Cordelia met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.
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When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
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It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.
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We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
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Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
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One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.