I don’t write stories to tell readers what to think, or even tell them what I think; I write stories to show me what I think. Writing is always a journey of discovery that way, as suspenseful for me as I hope it will be for the audience.
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Лоис Буджолд знаменитые цитаты
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Источник: романы
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Источник: романы
„Читайте, или вам будет не хватать чего-то необычного.“
Read, or you will be missing something extraordinary.
Рональд Грин, рецензия на роман «В свободном падении»
Источник: Chicago Sun-Times, 01.05.1988.
I got the same sort of feeling reading her works as I had gotten from classic Heinlein: a renewed faith in humanity and a desire to explore and do good in the universe. Great feeling.
Тони Вейсскопф, интервью Дж. Хелферсу
Источник: The Vorkosigan Companion. 2008, p. 78.
Лоис Буджолд: Цитаты на английском языке
“Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 60)
“The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 50)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (pp. 43-44)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 41)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 40)
“And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 276)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 266)
“I could bring almost nothing—I scarcely knew what to choose.”
“Think of the vast amounts of money we shall save on shipping charges, then.”
Chapter 14 (p. 256)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
“Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 254)
“We make our own luck. And it’s my responsibility to see it’s good and not bad.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 11 (p. 194)
“But of course. Who ever tracks me down to impart good news?
Chapter 10 (p. 180)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 9 (pp. 166-167)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 9 (p. 166)
“This isn’t a class. This is real life.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 152)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 143)
“There are weapons all around us here, we just don’t recognize them because we call them “tools.””
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 142)
“I don’t know whose judgement is worse, yours or the jerk’s who hired you—”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 5 (p. 101)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 4 (p. 78)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 36)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991), Chapter 10 (p. 411)
“You think like a soldier, m’lady.”
Kly sounded approving.
Cordelia wrinkled her brow in dismay. What an appalling compliment. The last thing she wanted was to start thinking like a soldier, playing their game by their rules. The hallucinatory military worldview was horribly infectious, though, immersed in it as she was now.
Chapter 13 (p. 458)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“For all you Betans seem soft, you have an appalling cold-blooded streak in you.”
“Rational streak, sir. Rationality has its merits. You Barrayarans ought to try it sometime.”
Chapter 9 (p. 393)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986), Chapter 19 (p. 320)
“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”
Chapter 18 (p. 308) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Chapter 13 (p. 223) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Источник: Chapter 13 (pp. 221-222) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.”
Источник: Chapter 13 (p. 215) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.”
Источник: Chapter 3 (p. 44) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Источник: Chapter 2 (pp. 29-30) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)