Lois McMaster Bujold frasi celebri
da Il gioco dei Vor, traduzione di Gianluigi Zuddas, Nord, 1992
Lois McMaster Bujold: Frasi in inglese
“Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 74)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 60)
“The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 50)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (pp. 43-44)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 41)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 3 (p. 40)
“And what is the most important leg of a three-legged stool? The one that is missing, of course.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 276)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 266)
“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.”
Chapter 14 (p. 256)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
“Clearly, you could die while waiting for other people to start your life for you.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 14 (p. 254)
“We make our own luck. And it’s my responsibility to see it’s good and not bad.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 11 (p. 194)
“But of course. Who ever tracks me down to impart good news?
Chapter 10 (p. 180)
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 9 (pp. 166-167)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 9 (p. 166)
“This isn’t a class. This is real life.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 152)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 143)
“There are weapons all around us here, we just don’t recognize them because we call them “tools.””
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 8 (p. 142)
“I don’t know whose judgement is worse, yours or the jerk’s who hired you—”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 5 (p. 101)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 4 (p. 78)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988), Chapter 2 (p. 36)
“You think like a soldier, m’lady.”
Kly sounded approving.
Cordelia wrinkled her brow in dismay. What an appalling compliment. The last thing she wanted was to start thinking like a soldier, playing their game by their rules. The hallucinatory military worldview was horribly infectious, though, immersed in it as she was now.
Chapter 13 (p. 458)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“For all you Betans seem soft, you have an appalling cold-blooded streak in you.”
“Rational streak, sir. Rationality has its merits. You Barrayarans ought to try it sometime.”
Chapter 9 (p. 393)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986), Chapter 19 (p. 320)
“That idea only makes sense if you don’t think too hard about it.”
Chapter 18 (p. 308) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Chapter 13 (p. 223) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Origine: Chapter 13 (pp. 221-222) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“Some saw stars, it seemed, and some saw the spaces between them.”
Origine: Chapter 13 (p. 215) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
“Ask a simple question, get a simple brick wall.”
Origine: Chapter 3 (p. 44) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Origine: Chapter 2 (pp. 29-30) Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
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