Lois McMaster Bujold (b.1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She is one of the most acclaimed writers in her field, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein’s record, not counting his Retro Hugo. Her novella The Mountains of Mourning won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature and was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and both her fourth Hugo Award and second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls. In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award. In 2013 she was awarded the Forry Award.
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My home is not a place, it is people.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: One liners, Home
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: Victory
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: Civilization
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage wasted by misdirection is the most heart-breaking of all tragedies. If there is an eighth deadly sin, it ought to be stupidity, by which all virtues run out into dry sands. Yet…where does prudence end and cowardice begin? That’s a very good damn question!
—Lois McMaster Bujold
An honor is not diminished for being shared.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: Honor, One liners
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
—Lois McMaster Bujold
Topics: One liners, Weapon
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