Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation. - Lois McMaster Bujold

You were kind.”

Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”

Bergon shook his head. “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 his ease before his own hearth.”

“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice — if not whether, then how, they may endure.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

“They seem more like toys than jewels, but I have to admit, they’re striking.”
“Oh, yes, a typical tech toy. High-end this year, everywhere next year, nowhere after that, till the antiquarians’ revival.”