Penric and the Shaman Quotes

“Your argument nibbles its own tail, I think?”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman

“He was uneasily unsure about the intentions of the white god that she, and now he, served. Though so far, Penric seemed to have been let get on with his life free of holy molestation.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman

“Oswyl attempted a smile as well, but it apparently lacked the blond man's magic; he was offered no kitten.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman

“Oswyl just looked exasperated. "This benighted case is the strangest I ever worked on. And I'm going to have to report it all when I get home, you realize?" Learned Penric's blue eyes crinkled as he grinned. "You'd best pray for eloquence, then.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman

“Do not deny the gods. And they will not deny you.” As Oswyl stared at him, he went on, “Dangerous habit, mind you. Once you start to let Them in through that first crack, They’re worse than mice.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman

“The five theological purposes of prayer, I was taught, are service, supplication, gratitude, divination, and atonement.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman

“Certain death still held attraction. Uncertain death, less so. He hurt enough already.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman

“Besides, in any country so well supplied with precipices as this one, a man doesn't need special tools to end his woes." By his expression, this, too, was a picture Oswyl would have preferred to live without.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Penric and the Shaman