Nikoleta L.

“I have seen him laugh in pure delight, standing on the dock at Vorkosigan Surleau and yelling instructions over the water, the morning I first sailed, dumped, and righted the skimmer by myself. I have seen him weep till his nose ran, more dead drunk than you were yesterday, Ahn, the night we got the word Major Duvallier was executed for espionage. I have seen him rage, so brick-red we feared for his heart, when reports came in fully detailing the stupidities that led to the last riots in Solstice. I have seen him wandering around Vorkosigan House at dawn in his underwear, yawning and prodding my sleepy mother into helping him find two matching socks. He's not like anything, Ahn. He's the original.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Mary Oliver

“Elena’s eye lit with a skewed enthusiasm. “Dear God, Miles. Metzov—Oser—Ungari—all in a row—you sure are hard on your commanding officers. What are you going to do when the time comes to let them all out?” Miles shook his head mutely. “I don’t know.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Vor Game

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth