Lois McMaster Bujold frasi celebri
da Il gioco dei Vor, traduzione di Gianluigi Zuddas, Nord, 1992
Lois McMaster Bujold: Frasi in inglese
“If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
“When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
"Putting It Together" p. 6
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
Origine: Cordelia's Honor
“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Variante: When you can't get what you want, you take what you can get.
Origine: Miles Errant
“Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.”
Origine: 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.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Origine: Cordelia's Honor
Contesto: 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?”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Diplomatic Immunity (2002)
Variante: "Don't panic."
"I'm not panicking, I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining."
Origine: 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.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“The Imperial Service could win a war without coffee, but would prefer not to have to.”
Origine: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Vorkosigan Saga, The Warrior's Apprentice (1986)
Origine: Young Miles
“I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!”
Origine: Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“You try to give away what you want yourself.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?”
Origine: The Curse of Chalion
“Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.”
Origine: Paladin of Souls
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Contesto: "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.”
Origine: A Civil Campaign
“Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Mirror Dance (1994)
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