Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic."
"I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .
Tags: humor panic miles-vorkosigan
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
Lois McMaster BujoldTags: humor
Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.
Lois McMaster BujoldTags: power feminism motherhood maternal-influence gynergy
The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.
Lois McMaster BujoldIt must be quite a shock to suddenly find out you're pregnant, seventeen times over—at your age, too.
Lois McMaster BujoldLord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.
Lois McMaster BujoldAnyway, 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 BujoldIdentity. 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?
Lois McMaster BujoldToo late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
Lois McMaster BujoldI 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 BujoldTags: blog-post
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