{"author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold","total_quotes":89,"quotes":[{"text":"When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["honor","love","marriage","marriage-advice"],"id":2269,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"You want to be good. All right, I can understand that. But you have to be careful who you let define your good.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["honor","morality","self-worth"],"id":15271,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"[Koudelka] looked back, 'You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!'[Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, 'Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["hope","trust"],"id":26503,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"You? I know you! You trust beyond reason.'She met his eyes steadily. 'Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["cordelia","countess","hope","kou","reason","trust"],"id":27340,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"And this was your friend?' Cordelia raised her eyebrows. 'Seems to me the only difference between your friends and your enemies is how long the stand around chatting before they shoot you.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["enemy","friend"],"id":27449,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["books","libraries","philosophy"],"id":29656,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"But though you’d never starve your body to wasting and still expect to go on, you starve your heart, yet act as though you can still draw on it forever without the debt ever coming due. If you fall—when you fall, you’re going to fall like a starving man.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["heart","starved"],"id":33753,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["enlightenment","gender-roles","ignorance","knowledge","stupidity"],"id":39797,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"There will be grace and forgiveness enough, old dog, even for you. I pray you will spare me a drink from that cup, when it overflows for you.- Miles Vorkosigan.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["eulogy","forgiveness"],"id":40695,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"},{"text":"I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.","author":"Lois McMaster Bujold","tags":["earn-it","give","giving","nature","nature-of-things","triumph","triumphs","victory"],"id":54061,"author_id":"Lois+McMaster+Bujold"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":89,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}