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Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves."

p. 61
Paladin of Souls (2003)

“Her eyes were full of new; it made them brighter.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold The Sharing Knife

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The Sharing Knife, Knife Children (2019)

“You can't solve problems by running away from them, it was said, and like the good child she had once been, she had believed this. But it wasn't true. Some problems could only be solved by running away from them.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Zdroj: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 36

“Mercy from the Father and the Mother, mercy from the Sister and the Brother, Mercy from the Bastard, five times mercy, High Ones, we beseech you.… Mercy, High Ones. Not justice, please, not justice. We would all be fools to pray for justice.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold

World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000)

“What a strange world you must live in, inside your head.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Aftermaths (p. 252)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

“A person’s things can be a kind of exterior morphology of their mind.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Aftermaths (p. 247). Note: Aftermaths was originally published as a standalone short story in 1986, but since then has usually been reprinted as a sort of appendix to Shards of Honor, which it follows naturally in the series arc.
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

“I’ve always felt that theists were more ruthless than atheists.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 15 (p. 235)

“Women shouldn’t be in combat, said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. Neither should men, in my opinion.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 223)

“The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present—they are real.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 9 (p. 141)

“Things going well for your side, are they?”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

She asked, oppressed. “We’re becoming nicely overextended. Some people regard that as progress.”

Chapter 8 (p. 129)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

“No fear trembled his voice. Well, she reflected, perhaps he was not old enough yet to have really come to believe in death after life.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 101)

“So in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it’s time that’s absolute.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 97)

“I’m sure we’d all rather be clever than brave.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 90)