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- 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
- Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
- A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
- Meg Cabot, The Boy Next Door, 2002
- Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
- Wally Lamb
- As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
- Rodney Yee
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