We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: love nostalgia self-reflection aging regret wistfulness might-have-been
And what is your current complaint?"
I don't like Barrayar, I want to go home, my father-in-law wants to murder my baby, half my friends are running for their lives, and I can't get ten minutes alone with my husband, whom you people are consuming before my eyes, my feet hurt, my head hurts, my soul hurts...
It was all too complicated. The poor man just wanted something to put in his blank, not an essay.
"Fatigue," Cordelia managed at last.
The Father of Winter says tells Ista,
"...For my great-souled child is very late, and lost upon his road. My calling voice cannot reach him. He cannot see the light in my window, for he is sundered from me, blind and deaf and stumbling, with none to take his hand and guide him. Yet you may touch him, in his darkness. And I may touch you, in yours. Then take you this thread to draw him through the maze, where I cannot go."
Later, Ista delivers the message,
"Your Father calls you to His Court. You need not pack; you go garbed in glory as you stand. He waits eagerly by His palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at His high table by His side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved. In this I speak true. Bend your head.
If only one didn't know that at the secret heart of all such organizations, corporations and governments alike, it still came down to a finite number of fallible people talking to each other . . .
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: people corporations governments fallible
Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.
Lois McMaster BujoldEndure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.
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I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: inspirational
With an air of confession, Jin lowered his voice. "Eggs come out of chickens' butts, you know.
Lois McMaster BujoldTag: humor
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