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.
интервью 2010 года «Geek Speak Magazine»
Источник: интервью «Geek Speak Magazine» на сайте журнала http://www.geekspeakmagazine.com/archive/issue9/features/inspiration_is_everywhere.htm
Лоис Буджолд знаменитые цитаты
свет
Источник: романы
рвота
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
“No amount of money can make one stay bought. Who does not freely choose to.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 24 (p. 540)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 24 (p. 527)
“Maybe only love gave you more than what you’d dealt for.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 492)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 22 (p. 490)
“The limits of trust depend much on whether you mean to do business more than once.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 20 (p. 442)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 15 (p. 337)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 15 (p. 319)
“Is that going to be a problem?”
said Ivan.
“Definitely. I just don’t know what kind, yet. Or whose.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 14 (p. 298)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 11 (p. 231)
asked Tej, her brows crimping in puzzlement.
“Uh…” Ivan sought a translation. “Like a Betan licensed practical sexuality therapist, only without the licensed and the therapy parts.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 11 (p. 229)
“Just because I have forgotten so many old enemies does not mean they have forgotten me.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 9 (p. 196)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 157)
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 1 (p. 21)
“I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure.”
And I don't trust myself anymore. I don't know what's happened to my edge. Lost it in a strange land.
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“The gods would take him and leave me bereft, and I curse them!”
"I have cursed them for years," said Ista dryly. "Turnabout being fair."
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 379
“Damn the boy for making a fucking farce out of his own funeral!”
Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
"I'm not panicking, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining."
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“You must kill if you expect to survive.”
"No you don't," Miles put in. "Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“He thinks he’s faking it,” said Suegar blandly, “but he’s not.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, The Borders of Infinity (1987), p. 243
“Heaven weeps, but free will is sacred. The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 24 (pp. 442-443)
“Inventing as you go, are you?”
“Yes, I am quite godlike in that way, if no other.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 18 (p. 328)
“If there is one thing that I have come to hate more than the gods, it is time.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 290)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 16 (p. 279)
“Such corruption feeds on its own success when it meets no correction.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 15 (p. 260)
“Magical powers worked sometimes; material powers worked all the time.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 12 (p. 218)
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 136)
“It is as much an error to take truth for lies, as lies for truth.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 8 (p. 134)
“And what guidance did you receive for all your prayers, lady?”
She bit her lip. “None.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 6 (p. 104)
“I saw no reason to stop my life for other people’s theories.”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 4 (p. 65)
“Those who are unwilling to admit error are fated to repeat it?”
Источник: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 4 (p. 57)