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“Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)

“The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 50)

“And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 276)

“I could bring almost nothing—I scarcely knew what to choose.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

“Think of the vast amounts of money we shall save on shipping charges, then.”

Chapter 14 (p. 256)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)

“Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 254)

“We make our own luck. And it’s my responsibility to see it’s good and not bad.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 11 (p. 194)

“We’ve run into a problem.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

“But of course. Who ever tracks me down to impart good news?

Chapter 10 (p. 180)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)

“This isn’t a class. This is real life.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 152)

“Even soldiers in battle have to be brought to a special state of mental excitement to shoot total strangers.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 143)

“There are weapons all around us here, we just don’t recognize them because we call them “tools.””

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 142)

“I don’t know whose judgement is worse, yours or the jerk’s who hired you—”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 5 (p. 101)

“Stupidity, yes, but not unilateral stupidity. Something this screwed up had to have taken a committee.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991), Chapter 10 (p. 411)

“You think like a soldier, m’lady.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Kly sounded approving.
Cordelia wrinkled her brow in dismay. What an appalling compliment. The last thing she wanted was to start thinking like a soldier, playing their game by their rules. The hallucinatory military worldview was horribly infectious, though, immersed in it as she was now.

Chapter 13 (p. 458)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“For all you Betans seem soft, you have an appalling cold-blooded streak in you.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

“Rational streak, sir. Rationality has its merits. You Barrayarans ought to try it sometime.”

Chapter 9 (p. 393)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)

“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Chapter 18 (p. 308) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“In the long run more mercenaries have had their asses shot off by their contractors than by their enemies.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Chapter 13 (p. 223) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“A mercenary who can’t honor his contract when it’s rough as well as smooth is a thug, not a soldier.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Chapter 13 (pp. 221-222) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Chapter 13 (p. 215) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Chapter 3 (p. 44) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)

“To kill a man, it helps if you can first take away his face. A neat mental trick. Handy for a soldier.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Zdroj: Chapter 2 (pp. 29-30) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)