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"Hi, I’m a hero, but I can’t tell you why. It’s classified."
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Lois McMaster Bujold"“Why are you here, Ivan?” He added under his breath, “and why couldn’t three bodyguards keep you out? Do I have to give orders to shoot to kill?” “My strength is great because my cause is just,” Vorpatril informed him. “My mother has sent me with a list of chores for you as long as my arm. With footnotes.”"
Lois McMaster Bujold is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record. Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels featuring Miles Vorkosigan, a physically impaired interstellar spy and mercenary admiral from the planet Barrayar, set approximately 1000 years in the future. The
"Hi, I’m a hero, but I can’t tell you why. It’s classified."
"Women. Uterine replicators with legs, as it were."
"Still, what d’you expect of the descendants of a colony that started as a hijacker base? Naturally they developed into an aristocracy."
"I don’t know what passion he inspires in you—were you lovers? You’d be amazed how many people have clones made for that purpose."
"Never give aversion therapy to a masochist. The results are unpredictable."
"“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.”"