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Lois McMaster Bujold
US science fiction author [more author details]

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Adversity does teach who your real friends are.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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What you are is a question only you can answer.: Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986

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