He gave himself up to God and pressed the button. - Lois McMaster Bujold

I don’t regret knowing myself, ma’am. I don’t even regret…being myself.

Anyway, she now realized, the military histories she’d read had left out the most important part; they never told what happened to people’s babies.

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.'

-Bergon and Cazaril talking over the past