Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic."
"I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

Lois McMaster Bujold

Stichwörter: humor panic miles-vorkosigan



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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

Stichwörter: humor



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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Stichwörter: power feminism motherhood maternal-influence gynergy



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The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.

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It must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over—at your age, too.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Stichwörter: humor pregnancy



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Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Stichwörter: political observant



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Anyway, if the Cetagandans really wanted to assassinate you, they'd hardly do it here. They'd slip something subtle under your skin that wouldn't go off for six months, and then would drop you mysteriously and untraceably in your tracks

Lois McMaster Bujold

Stichwörter: humor irony



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Identity. That's my elephant. The thought came with certainty, without the question mark on the end this time. Not fame, exactly, though recognition was some kind of important cement for it. But what you were was what you did. And I did more, oh yes. If a hunger for identity were translated into, say, a hunger for food, he'd be a more fantastic glutton than Mark ever dreamed of being. Is it irrational, to want to be so much, to want so hard it hurts? And how much, then, was enough?

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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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I know what the value [of storytelling] is to me -- varied and huge, giving me everything from delight, to knowledge, to access to friends and colleagues, a desirable identity through valued work, escape from pain, and a steady income. Not bad, for something so intangible as making and selling dream-by-number kits.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Stichwörter: blog-post



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