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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.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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“What you are is a question only you can answer.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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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.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

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“It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Cordelia's Honor (1996), Author's Afterword

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“I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better — when you can get it.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Young Miles (1997), Author's Afterword

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“Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

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“I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Women's Hero Journey : An Interview With Lois McMaster Bujold on Paladin of Souls by Alan Oak at WomenWriters.net (June 2009)

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“God's not here. Somebody's got to fill in.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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“Just because we're adults doesn't automatically mean we can save you...”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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“If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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“It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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“Were you born inhuman, or did you grow so by degrees — M.S., M.D., Ph.D...”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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“He gave himself up to God and pressed the button.”

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Source/Notes: Vorkosigan Saga

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