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
“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
"Putting It Together" p. 6
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
Источник: Cordelia's Honor
“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Вариант: When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
Источник: Miles Errant
“Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.”
Источник: A Civil Campaign
“I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Источник: Cordelia's Honor
Контексте: Welcome to Barrayar, son. Here you go: have a world of wealth and poverty, wrenching change and rooted history. Have a birth; have two. Have a name. Miles means "soldier," but don't let the power of suggestion overwhelm you. Have a twisted form in a society that loathes and fears the mutations that have been its deepest agony. Have a title, wealth, power, and all the hatred and envy they will draw. Have your body ripped apart and re-arranged. Inherit an array of friends and enemies you never made. Have a grandfather from hell. Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it. Always be a moving target. Live. Live. Live.
“If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
Вариант: "Don't panic."
"I'm not panicking, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining."
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.”
Источник: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Источник: Young Miles
“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”
Источник: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“You try to give away what you want yourself.”
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?”
Источник: The Curse of Chalion
“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”
Источник: Paladin of Souls
Источник: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Контексте: "You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."
"And what do you find on the other side? When you go on?"
"Your life again. What else?"
"Is that a promise?"
"It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on."
“My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.”
Источник: A Civil Campaign
“Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)