He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: truth infinity insight value-of-life
So what’s the test?"
"Ah, that’s the trick of it. It’s not a test. It’s real life.
Tag: reality real-life test tests this-is-not-a-test
He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
Lois McMaster BujoldIf there’s no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: winning games game meaningless
And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: prayer
God save me from another such victory.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: victory defeat pyrrhic-victories
But when he’s cut, I bleed.
Lois McMaster BujoldI miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
Lois McMaster Bujold…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: death inevitable oaths in-the-end the-dead death-before-dishonor
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: nature victory triumph giving give triumphs nature-of-things earn-it
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