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When we have somebody who says, 'I want to help you and not charge you,' that gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling.


Dennis W. McMaster

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"Yes. Sorry," he wh...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Aim high. You may still miss the target, but at least you won't shoot your foot off.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainl...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital inte...
H. R. MCMASTER (Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was no...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your hear...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD It is important to understand how leaders have adapted and thought about war and warfare across thei...
H. R. MCMASTER What we can afford least is to define the problem of future war as we would like it to be and, by do...
H. R. MCMASTER It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of...
H. R. MCMASTER When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something usele...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don&#...
H. R. MCMASTER I know what the value [of storytelling] is to me -- varied and huge, giving me everything from delig...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Are you sure this isn't instant boots?" asked Cordelia sadly, for in color, taste, and smell they cl...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD He bit his fingernails. He bit his toenails. He pulled tiny green threads from his shirt and tried f...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with gro...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Sorry, Bill. I just have this awful vision of being p-peeled like an onion, looking for the seeds."<...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we t...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Apologizing to me again, thought Miles miserably. For me. He keeps telling me I'm all right—and th...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry�...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Now, there's this about cynicism, Sergeant. It's the universe's most supine moral position. Real com...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and root...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Ekaterin glanced back over her shoulder. “He didn’t look very well this morning, Pym. You really...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Of course, compared to Serg, Tien wasn’t much worse than foolish and venal. But it was hard to wat...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Lately, I have come to believe that the principal difference between heaven and hell is the company ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The fricti...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD You? I know you! You trust beyond reason."
She met his eyes steadily. "Yes. It's how I get resu...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Pym looked at the bugs, glanced at the sleeve of his proud uniform, stared again at the deadly parod...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstand...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about
yourself... Guard ...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD How had he rehearsed this vitally-important, utterly-critical meeting, again? "Mother, Father, let m...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Gardens were meant to be seen, smelled, walked through, grubbed in. A hundred objective measurements...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair.

The m...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Pym!" The Countess spotted a new victim, and her voice went a little dangerous. "I seconded you to l...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD