Her eyes were full of new; it made them brighter. - Lois McMaster Bujold

“I’m planning my course work for the next session at university. I was too late to start this summer, so I’ll begin in the fall. There’s so much to choose from. I feel so ignorant.”
“Educated is what you aim to be coming out, not going in.”

“If you can’t win, change the game.”
Ivan twitched a brow upward. “If there’s no game, isn’t winning a pretty meaningless concept?”

“How did your mother cope, Lord Vorkosigan?”
“You mean, being an egalitarian Betan and all? No problem. She says egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats.”