Lois McMaster Bujold
"Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard."
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"If you can't do what you want, do what you can."
"It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture."
"A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something."
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I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.
""Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards."