I guess it just doesn’t look very heroic to sneak up behind somebody and shoot them in the back. I can’t help thinking it would be more efficient, th… - Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The friction tends to arise when the two are not the same....There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

Even after four days of oatmeal and blue cheese dressing, they were a disappointment.
“Are you sure this isn’t instant boots?” asked Cordelia.

“You don’t have any inhibitions at all, do you?”
“Not in combat.”