For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

About Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste… years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just… take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

—King Edward VIII

That's sort of a cliche about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.

—Jill Churchill

There is nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

—Heather Armstrong

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

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