Lois McMaster Bujold frasi celebri
da Il gioco dei Vor, traduzione di Gianluigi Zuddas, Nord, 1992
Lois McMaster Bujold: Frasi in inglese
“Taura nailed it. She'll do for m'lord, all right. And God help their enemies.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Winterfair Gifts (2008)
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 233
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 125
“I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.”
"Putting It Together" p. 8
The Vorkosigan Companion (2008)
“I have an aversion to closed doors anyway. You never know what's on the other side.”
Origine: Vorkosigan Saga, Shards of Honor (1986), Chapter 5 (p. 78)
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 296
Origine: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 201
“How could I have died and gone to hell without noticing the transition?”
Vorkosigan Saga, Borders of Infinity (1989)
A Girl's World interview (2006)
“Adversity does teach who your real friends are.”
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
“There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Ethan of Athos (1986)
“The last thing a monster wanted was a fellow to follow him around all day long with a mirror.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.”
Correspondence with feminist scholar and author Sylvia Kelso, published in Women of Other Worlds (1999), also quoted in "Women’s Hero Journey : An Interview With Lois McMaster Bujold on Paladin of Souls by Alan Oak at WomenWriters.net (June 2009) http://womenwriters.net/june09/paladin_interview.html
“Cynicism did not seem nearly so impressively daring to her now as it had when she was twenty.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Komarr (1998)
“I was never a mercenary, not ever. Not for one single minute.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
“Live, and so confound our enemies.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
“Those who do not know their history are doomed to keep stepping in it.”
This evokes the famous statement by George Santayana in The Life of Reason Vol. 1 (1905): "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Vorkosigan Saga, The Vor Game (1990)
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