Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Tag: Lois McMaster Bujold
The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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.
I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose?though not always what I pleased.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
You try to give away what you want yourself.