When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.


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LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enoug...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
There's something to that in both directions," said Ekaterin mildly. "Nothing is more guaranteed to ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"
[Cordelia] met his eyes st...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring p...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
His master plan to get them all out the door early met its first check of the day when he opened his...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Whatever you're thinking of. Just don't. I don't want anything to do with it."
"What I was abou...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers, you know
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless b...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
The gods do not grant miracles for our purposes, but for theirs. If you are become their tool, it is...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you flinch or falter.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
You cannot outguess the gods. Hold to virtue—if you can identify it—and trust that the duty set ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
A guy like Manny Pacquiao or Floyd Mayweather is used to fighting 12-rounders. Put them into the rin...
MANDY BUJOLD
Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are c...
MANDY BUJOLD
I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes...
MANDY BUJOLD
One of my brothers, Eric, who is one year older than me, was actually the first one to start boxing,...
MANDY BUJOLD
I always joke that I want to be able to retire from boxing and still be able to look into the mirror...
MANDY BUJOLD
I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it an...
MANDY BUJOLD
The last Pan Am Games in 2011 was one of the best experiences in my career. It was the first time wo...
MANDY BUJOLD
There's always that stigma of, 'Women shouldn't box,' or stereotypes of what a femal...
MANDY BUJOLD
Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
MANDY BUJOLD
Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I p...
MANDY BUJOLD
Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
MANDY BUJOLD
No one likes getting hit. It's a normal thing... I used to make up excuses when the coach would ...
MANDY BUJOLD
I, for one, refuse to box without headgear as an amateur. With the rising awareness of concussions a...
MANDY BUJOLD
The main thing in acting is honesty, to feel the humanity and get to the essence of the character. Y...
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a...
GENEVIEVE BUJOLD
Las Vegas is the perfect host city to bring new energy to the Miss America Pageant. It should make f...
ART MCMASTER
We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.
ART MCMASTER
the pageant's continued vitality and growth.
ART MCMASTER
Atlanta is a nice city, ... I'm sure they would have the facilities.
ART MCMASTER
She is really influenced by mass media Hollywood. A lot of her works include drawings of celebrities...
CHRISTINA MCMASTER
[Pageant officials thanked the Atlantic City community for its longstanding support of the pageant.]...
ART MCMASTER
The decision to leave the longtime home in Atlantic City was made after extremely careful deliberati...
ART MCMASTER
I will give you my days... but, my dear sorceress, your nights are mine.
BEC MCMASTER
What we wanted to do is find a new host city that has all glitz and glamour Miss America is known fo...
ART MCMASTER
What we wanted to do is find a new host city that has all glitz and glamour Miss America is known fo...
ART MCMASTER
It was a strictly financial decision. The revenues just aren't there anymore. People think we wanted...
ART MCMASTER
There's really one major difference between this tax return and last year's, and that is the differe...
ART MCMASTER
We're trying to promote these young ladies as tomorrow's leaders. We're going to push scholastic ach...
ART MCMASTER
The days of big money are gone, and the days of big-money production companies are gone. The big mon...
ART MCMASTER
We've received four unsolicited calls today. They want to start talking. They want to talk about the...
ART MCMASTER
We needed to find a better partner, one that better understands our values. CMT's audience is the he...
ART MCMASTER
The decision to leave the pageant's longtime home in Atlantic City was made after extremely careful ...
ART MCMASTER
She's very smart. She is pretty sharp. She's really concerned about people. She has a hilarious sens...
CHRISTINA MCMASTER
Once we reach Las Vegas the game faces come on.
ART MCMASTER
He tells me there'll be no sex in it, and I expect there won't. It's a very moral novel about life t...
BRIAN MCMASTER
A number of major artists said they'd like to be part of my last festival and it was an offer I coul...
BRIAN MCMASTER
When I hear a little about something like this, I want to get the whole story. Joe was one of the bi...
GARY MCMASTER
Most of the World War II veterans are in their 80s now, and many are dying. Their families are putti...
GARY MCMASTER
I think what we saw today was the effect of our counterinsurgency and security operations in Tall Af...
HR MCMASTER
A couple of months ago, they might not have been able to pull it together after something like that....
HR MCMASTER
Is there enough force here right now to secure this area permanently? No. Are there opportunities fo...
HR MCMASTER