"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (A Civil Campaign)

"I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Shards of Honour)

"Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you."
— Lois McMaster Bujold

"Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Mirror Dance)

"My home is not a place, it is people."
— Lois McMaster Bujold (Barrayar)

"Any idiot can put up a website."
— Patricia Briggs (Blood Bound)

"A stupid ruler is much more of a problem than an insane one."
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Blood)

"Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword."
— Patricia Briggs (Raven's Shadow)

"Make no judgments where you have no compassion."
— Anne McCaffrey

"No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it."
— Elizabeth Peters

"The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be."
— Elizabeth Peters

"Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries."
— Elizabeth Peters (The Mummy Case)

"Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead."
— Robin McKinley (Rose Daughter)

"Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered."
— J.D. Robb (Divided in Death)