[LMB] Re: Lois-Bujold Digest, Vol 14, Issue 7

[Mariluz Ochoa de Olza]

(Hi, I'm new. *waves* To the list, not to the books)

"I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me." -
Cordelia Naismith, still not Vorkosigan.

I'd already gotten pretty hooked by the time I reached that line, but seeing
all the "issues with authority" I've had since babyhood wrapped into one
single line would have gotten me coming back even if the rest hadn't been
great.

Mariluz, still unable to take orders from morons...


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> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 23:46:30 -0500
> From: "Ian W. Riddell" <iwriddell at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [LMB] Convert and quotation
> To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster Bujold."
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> I'll add myself to this chorus.
>
> I can no longer count the number of times that the words of one of her
> characters have kept me going:
>
> Ivan: If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?
>
> Harra: You go on. You just go on. There's nothign more to it, and there's
> no
> trick to make it easier. You just go on. (I love "Memory"!)
>
> Aral: Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you
> know
> about yourself. . . . There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with
> your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps
> you
> in rewards. That's soul destroying. The other way around is merely very,
> very irritating.
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>
> widdy
>
> On 7/5/06, CatMtn at aol.com <CatMtn at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is it just you?  No.  I've found Lois' books very useful in  helping me
> > understand various situations.  And there are so many times I  refer to
> > them
> > mentally--the only other author I've quoted that much has  been
> > Shakespeare.  Maybe.
> >
> > Mary
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> Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread,
> remade all the time, made new.
> Ursula K. LeGuin
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