Frases de Lois McMaster Bujold (384 citações, página 9)

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“Se você consegue sinceramente gostar das pessoas, é difícil para elas resistir em gostar de você em retorno.”

Lois McMaster Bujold: Frases em inglês

“"The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!"
"I have cursed them for years," said Ista dryly. "Turnabout being fair."”

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Fonte: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379

“For her, this was a metaphor, he reminded himself. Though maybe he was a metaphor too, inside his head with the Black Gang. A metaphor gone metastatic.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“Old age," she said, "is slower than a grenade, but a lot more thorough.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010)

“I am not her to vent my feelings. I am here to achieve my goals.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)

“You are a most excellent lawyer, for a dead man.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livro Paladin of Souls

Fonte: Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 296

“Your "accidents," I once noticed, have ways of entangling your enemies that are the green envy of mature and careful strategists. Far too consistent for chance, I concluded it had to be unconscious will.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

“Miles cursed himself silently, then out loud. He really had to try to cultivate a more normal attitude toward senior officers…. When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a god-like being, not a, a… future subordinate.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

“I'm sorry. I can love you. I can grieve for you, or with you. I can share your pain. But I cannot judge you.”

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Fonte: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 11 (p. 162)

“Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)

“Mother Nature gives a sense of romance to young people, in place of prudence, to advance the species. It's a trick—that makes us grow.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)

“Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Ethan of Athos (1986)

“I think it (i. e., sainthood) is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Fonte: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 224

“Luck is something you make for yourself, if you want it.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

“The most interesting question of history is always, What were these people thinking?”

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Vorkosigan Saga, (2012)

“I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

This evokes the statement by Newton: "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)

“The shocked silence that followed was decidedly baffled. And even, possibly, a little thoughtful, if that was not too much to hope.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Fonte: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 31

“"Let's see what happens." Yes, let's.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

“All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Cryoburn (2010)

“From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.”

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"Publishing, Writing, and Authoring", p. 75
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

“I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold

"'A Conversation With Lois McMaster Bujold", p. 60
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

“It's never too late while you're breathing.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“I can't quit, once I've started. I've been told I'm pathologically persistent. I can't quit.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“I would be considerably more impressed with your god, dy Cabon," said Ista through her teeth, "if He could have arranged one life's worth of simple protection in advance, rather than three hundred lives' worth of gaudy vengeance afterward.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold livro Paladin of Souls

Fonte: Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 271

“"I thought they'd never fall asleep." Ivan paused; a slow smirk displaced the snarl on his face. "But they were smiling, when they finally did."”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Cetaganda (1996)

“Heroes. They sprang up around him like weeds. A carrier, he was seemingly unable to catch the disease he spread.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including — or perhaps especially — the failures.”

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"Putting It Together" p. 6
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)

“Power is better than revenge. Power is a live thing, by which you reach out to grasp the future. Revenge is a dead thing, reaching out from the past to grasp you.”

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Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)

“Right or wrong, what I also saw was that you made an enemy, and left him alive behind you. Great charity. Bad tactics.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold

Fonte: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 60

“It's… a transcendental act. Making life. I thought about that when I was carrying Miles. 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between.”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“Just because we're adults doesn't automatically mean we can save you…”

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Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)

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