Randall

“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“But a name is a thing of the air, of the mind and the spirit, so a fellow could give it to a spirit, right?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Demon

“I’ve been taught any number of ways to manage anger, and they really work. What she’s never been able to teach me is how to want to manage it. So I go on seething and raging and knowing the whole time that it’s my own fault, because I do know how to stop.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education

“Better it seemed to export cheese or cloth, but it was true that fortunes were made in the military trade. Though seldom by the soldiers, any more than by the cheeses. While”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric’s Demon