Lois McMaster Bujold frasi celebri
da Il gioco dei Vor, traduzione di Gianluigi Zuddas, Nord, 1992
Lois McMaster Bujold: Frasi in inglese
“I’d have worn them as a courtesy to your friend, I’ll wear them now as a defiance to our enemies.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Winterfair Gifts (2008)
“Why did so many antique myths agree that hell was a circular place?”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 313
“Strange mercies, Illyan. You kill me so courteously.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Such a perilous concentration of demons would create chaos all around it.”
"War gathers on these borders," said Ista. "A greater concentration of chaos I can hardly imagine."
p. 281
Paladin of Souls (2003)
“The gods…the gods may forgive much, to a truly penitent heart.”
Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves."
p. 61
Paladin of Souls (2003)
“Her eyes were full of new; it made them brighter.”
Loc 1972 of 2974
The Sharing Knife, Knife Children (2019)
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 36
World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000)
“What a strange world you must live in, inside your head.”
Aftermaths (p. 252)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“A person’s things can be a kind of exterior morphology of their mind.”
Aftermaths (p. 247). Note: Aftermaths was originally published as a standalone short story in 1986, but since then has usually been reprinted as a sort of appendix to Shards of Honor, which it follows naturally in the series arc.
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
“I’ve always felt that theists were more ruthless than atheists.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 15 (p. 235)
“Women shouldn’t be in combat, said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. Neither should men, in my opinion.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 223)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 9 (p. 141)
“Things going well for your side, are they?”
She asked, oppressed. “We’re becoming nicely overextended. Some people regard that as progress.”
Chapter 8 (p. 129)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 7 (p. 101)
“So in the physics of the heart, distance is relative; it’s time that’s absolute.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 97)
“I’m sure we’d all rather be clever than brave.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 6 (p. 90)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 81)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 81)
“Anybody ever tell you you’re a lunatic?”
“Not in this context.”
Chapter 5 (p. 80; Vorkosigan has just proposed to Cordelia)
Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986)
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