Masquerade in Lodi Quotes

“The gods do not save us from death.  They only catch us when we fall from life.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“Cold greed, and hot fear of being found out. Should fear be added to the list of great sins? It can do as much harm, I’ll grant, said Des.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“Pen wondered at a world that hanged poor men for thievery, but celebrated great ones”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“Greed is an appetite that looks largely to some imagined or feared future.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“maybe dolphins didn’t think in terms of arson.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“Pen wondered at a world that hanged poor men for thievery, but celebrated great ones.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“cut”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“Even as a learned divine it was not his place to judge men's souls. The gods in their time would do so without fail and with much fuller knowledge.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“Ogial picked up a note and twiddled it in his fingers in Penric’s direction.  Penric took it gingerly.  The crisp writing didn’t add much to the archdivine’s precis, beyond the nameless patient’s guessed age, early twenties, and coloration—caramel skin, curly dark hair, brown eyes—which described half the folk in Adria.  The reported drooling, thrashing, and broken speech could denote, well, any number of conditions.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi

“Although demons can lie."
So can humans, muttered Des. And rather more often.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Masquerade in Lodi