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“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“Modern warfare wasn't supposed to have this much blood in it. The weapons were supposed to cook everyone neatly, like eggs in their shells. (Mark Vorkosigan's first experience with warfare, on seeing Miles Vorkosigan splattered before him)”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance

“When a dead man knocks on the car window, I think fainting is a reasonable response.”
― Marjorie F. Baldwin

“The past only exists in the minds of those who choose to recall it.”
― Marjorie F. Baldwin, Conditioned Response

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

“Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche