The Curse of Chalion
Lois McMaster Bujold
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.”
“Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.”
“The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.”
“Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at ease before his own hearth.”
“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”
“This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.”
“The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.”
“Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?”
“I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.”
“When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize of the gods' gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy.”
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