Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

A good friend of my son`s is a son to me.

If you make it plain you like people, it`s hard for them to resist liking you back.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

You don`t pay back your parents. You can`t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It`s a sort of entailment. Or if you don`t have children of the body, it`s left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

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.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Some men just aren`t cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

If power was an illusion, wasn`t weakness necessarily one also?

If the truth doesn`t save us, what does that say about us?

I take it as a man`s duty to restrain himself.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.