"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
- Lois McMaster Bujold
"Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible."
"[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!"[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall."
"Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume."On my cenotaph, you mean. Nobody will be able to collect enough of my scattered atoms to bury. You going t..."
"Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods.""Do you?""I believe ..."
"It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for."
"I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name."
"In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that ..."
"Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion."
"Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing ..."