“Everybody has it wrong way round. Parents don't make children--children make parents. They shape our behavior from the first wail. Mold us into what they need. It can be a pretty rough process, too”
― Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
― Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen
“It’s not that I’m not upset; it’s just that I’m too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.”
― Barrayar
― Barrayar
“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.”
― Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
― Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
“His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
― Memory
― Memory
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