Anne

“Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

“Here is the thing, though, the real, true thing I still have trouble admitting: I can't protect you from everything...I can't protect you from spending a lifetime caught between the beautiful dream of a diverse nation and the complicated reality of one. I can't even protect you from the simple fact that sometimes, the people who love us will choose a world that doesn't.”
― Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

“And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold

“It’s not that I’m not upset; it’s just that I’m too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar