I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
Lois McMaster BujoldIt's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for.
Lois McMaster BujoldStichwörter: writing creativity serendipity writing-process
Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.
Lois McMaster BujoldStichwörter: grief
Wait." He paused, and she held out a hand to him. His thick fingers engulfed her tapering ones; his skin was warm and dry, and scorched her. "Before we go pick up poor Lieutenant Illyan again..."
He took her in his arms, and they kissed, for the first time, for a long time.
"Oh," she muttered after. "Perhaps that was a mistake. It hurts so much when you stop."
"Well, let me..." his hand stroked her hair, gently, then desperately wrapped itself in a shimmering coil; they kissed again.
Stichwörter: first-kiss
All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, or a scientist, or an independent business creator. In service of their goals they lay down time and energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self. Becoming a parent is one of these basic human transformational deeds. By this act, we change our fundamental relationship with the universe- if nothing else, we lose our place as the pinnacle and end-point of evolution, and become a mere link. The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again.
Lois McMaster BujoldThat civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.
Lois McMaster BujoldAnything worth achieving is worth overachieving.
Lois McMaster BujoldStichwörter: inspirational-humor
Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.
Lois McMaster BujoldThe 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.
Lois McMaster BujoldStichwörter: knowledge stupidity ignorance enlightenment gender-roles
As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor
Lois McMaster BujoldStichwörter: vorkosigan ivan
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