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Our children change us... whether they live or not.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
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Children

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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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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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What you are is a question only you can answer.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action.
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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All true wealth is biological.
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And this was your friend? Cordelia raised her eyebrows. Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.
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For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
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Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.
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When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
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I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!
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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.
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His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient. Maybe she'd been tired, or irritated, or distracted, or hungry, or angry. Maybe she had been dying. But her hands had kept moving, all the same.
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