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- A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- You have to be careful who you let define your good.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
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