Stupidity, yes, but not unilateral stupidity. Something this screwed up had to have taken a committee. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Some fortunate, prolific writers seem to be able, efficiently, to keep several projects going at once; it appears I am not one of them.

Do you know, I think you’d like politics at least on Barrayar. Maybe because it’s so similar to what we call war, elsewhere.

"He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him..." he paused again, and then continued almost shyly, "that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you."

"That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion."

"Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves."