But I know you have courage, and I know you have will. The rest is just picking yourself up and ramming into the wall again and again until it falls down. You get a bloody forehead, so what? You can do it, I swear you can.
Oh, what did she finally decide on?” asked the pilot. “At one point she told me she was thinking of sending the bride a barbed-wire choke chain for Miles, but was afraid it might be misinterpreted.” “No.
Don’t promote your troubles beyond your rank.
Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing anything. Sit down and wait sensibly. Earth, water, air, fire – you’re running out of elements here!
Quite the reverse, since innocence based in ignorance was unfit to protect itself.
Just once, Pen thought glumly, he’d like to get an answer to prayers, instead of being delivered as one.
The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.
Trust in the gods, They will supply? Hardly. He wondered suddenly if it was as hard for the gods to have faith in Ingrey as it was for him to have faith in Them, and a weird wild urge to show Them how it should be done swept him for a moment.
Indeed. On average, one-half of all supplicants to come before a judge’s bench must depart angry and disappointed. But not, by that, necessarily wronged.“.
Another day will put some other plate on your table, more to your taste, but do not waste the food in front of you.
The Emperor’s Birthday is the traditional end of the fiscal year, for each count’s district in relation to the Imperial government. In other words, it’s tax day, except – the Vor are not taxed. That would imply too subordinate a relationship to the Imperium. Instead, we give the Emperor a present.
The world is ashes and the gods are a horror. Tell me, Learned, what other place is there for me to go?
One gives you the shirt off his back, mused Des, and the other offers to help you bury bodies. I do believe you have made some new friends, Pen!
So, how long has my mother had this questionable fetish for bisexual Barrayaran admirals? I don’t think even the Betans have earrings for that one.
But why, in God the Father’s name, should they want to destroy Athos? Is Cetaganda – controlled by women or something?” A.
I guess it just doesn’t look very heroic to sneak up behind somebody and shoot them in the back. I can’t help thinking it would be more efficient, though.
What is love but delight in another human being? He delights me daily.
What do you most want for your birthday picnic, Admiral?” Taken by surprise, he answered honestly: “No casualties.
He smiled, recapturing her hand. “A very wise woman once told me – you just go on. I’ve never encountered any good advice that didn’t boil down to that, in the end. Not even my father’s.” I want to be with you always, so you can make me laugh myself well.
He wondered how many would ever march home. Better it seemed to export cheese or cloth, but it was true that fortunes were made in the military trade. Though seldom by the soldiers, any more than by the cheeses.