Lois McMaster
Lois McMaster
Lois McMaster quotes about
downhill flowing imagine wave
They imagine they're the wave of the future, but it's only sewage flowing downhill
company-you-keep differences heaven
The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.
engineering steps finals
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.
time watches world
One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
possible-change inevitable change-is-inevitable
Change is possible.' 'Change is inevitable.
time sticks littles
You can say a lot in a little time, if you stick to words of one syllable.
eyebrows differences long
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.
too-short
He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.
mistake stupid ignorance
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.
wikipedia dangerous
Wikipedia is so dangerous.
peace war slides
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
mad despair lasts
For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.
echoes doe repeats
History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.
escaping climbing-up pages
Miles is... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.