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'''Desplains''': "Actually he trains interrogator."
--? -- Poor '''Tej''' learning she is out of her league.
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-> '''Tej''' (''to Ivan''): "I don't suppose ''you'' could sleep with Byerly...."
-> '''Rish''': "Only if I can watch."
--> -- Speculating on possible partners in adultery. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''.
-> "Is everything horrible made not so?"
--> -- '''Rish''' upon discovering that the parents she and '''Tej''' thought dead are alive.
-> "What the ''hell'', Simon?"
--> -- A question more people should have asked. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''.
-> ''Welcome to Chez Vorpatril. Please take a seat, I will be your spine for this evening...''
--> -- '''Ivan''' annoyed with an intimidated Byerley. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''.
-> ''"Where are my children, you worthless sack of greed?"'''
--> -- The elegant, half-haut '''Baronne''' revealing her inner MamaBear. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''.
-> "Could you people ''stop'' trying to come up with ''novel ways to kill me'' for just one hour?"
--> -- A justifiably fed up '''Ivan'''. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> '''Rish''': "Only if I can watch."
--> -- Speculating on possible partners in adultery. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''.
-> "Is everything horrible made not so?"
--> -- '''Rish''' upon discovering that the parents she and '''Tej''' thought dead are alive.
-> "What the ''hell'', Simon?"
--> -- A question more people should have asked. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''.
-> ''Welcome to Chez Vorpatril. Please take a seat, I will be your spine for this evening...''
--> -- '''Ivan''' annoyed with an intimidated Byerley. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''.
-> ''"Where are my children, you worthless sack of greed?"'''
--> -- The elegant, half-haut '''Baronne''' revealing her inner MamaBear. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''.
-> "Could you people ''stop'' trying to come up with ''novel ways to kill me'' for just one hour?"
--> -- A justifiably fed up '''Ivan'''. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
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--> -- '''Miles''' assuring his hosted, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, that he will be happy to sleep in her workroom, ''Komarr''
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--> -- '''Miles''' assuring his hosted, hostess, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, that he will be happy to sleep in her workroom, ''Komarr''
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-> "Unhand Lady Vorpatril!"
--> -- '''Ivan''' channeling his cousin Count Falco. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> "It's rumored That all of House Ryoval was taken down by a single ImpSec agent, after the old baron pissed Barrayar off somehow."
--> -- '''Tej''' explaining to '''Rish''' why they have to be careful of ImpSec. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> '''Tej''': "Has Morozov much special training in interrogation?"
'''Desplains''': "Actually he trains interrogator."
--? -- Poor '''Tej''' learning she is out of her league.
--> -- '''Ivan''' channeling his cousin Count Falco. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> "It's rumored That all of House Ryoval was taken down by a single ImpSec agent, after the old baron pissed Barrayar off somehow."
--> -- '''Tej''' explaining to '''Rish''' why they have to be careful of ImpSec. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> '''Tej''': "Has Morozov much special training in interrogation?"
'''Desplains''': "Actually he trains interrogator."
--? -- Poor '''Tej''' learning she is out of her league.
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--> -- cozily discussing the beginning of their relationship in ''Memory''.
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--> -- cozily discussing the beginning of their relationship in ''Memory''.
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-> '''Taura''': "Was it love at first sight, for you?"
-> '''Miles''': "Mm... no, truthfully. It was more like terror at first sight. Falling in love took. oh, an hour or so."
--> -- cozily discussing the beginning of their relationship in ''Memory''.
-> '''Miles''': "Mm... no, truthfully. It was more like terror at first sight. Falling in love took. oh, an hour or so."
--> -- cozily discussing the beginning of their relationship in ''Memory''.
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-> "We're not something wriggling with too many legs that you found in your sleeping bag. The proper tone of voice is ''Mercenaries!'' - with a glad cry."
--> -- '''Miles''' again on being displeased with Beatrice's initial response. ''The Borders of Infinity''
--> -- '''Miles''' again on being displeased with Beatrice's initial response. ''The Borders of Infinity''
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-> '''Foscol''':That was longer ago.
-> '''Professora Vorthys''': Ah, I see. So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed, And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you’d better hurry. You wouldn’t want your heroism to spoil.
--> '''The [[CoolOldLady Professora]]''' demonstrates how it does not pay to rationalize in front of a historian. ''Komarr''
-> '''Professora Vorthys''': Ah, I see. So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed, And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you’d better hurry. You wouldn’t want your heroism to spoil.
--> '''The [[CoolOldLady Professora]]''' demonstrates how it does not pay to rationalize in front of a historian. ''Komarr''
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--> '''Tej''' on her cryogenically frozen elder brother who turns out to have been TheMole. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
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--> '''Tej''' on her cryogenically frozen elder brother who turns out to have been TheMole. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-->''I'm afraid even Imp Sec has no explanation for women's taste in men''
-->Barrayaran agent on the ancestry of House Cordonah in ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-->''I'm afraid even Imp Sec has no explanation for women's taste in men''
-->Barrayaran agent on the ancestry of House Cordonah in ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
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-> "Guy, has ImpSec HQ always been sort of....tilted up on one side?"
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-> "Guy, has ImpSec Imp Sec HQ always been sort of....tilted up on one side?"
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--> -- '''Ekaterin Lady Vorkosigan''' on how she managed to make two empires listen up, ''Diplomatic Immunity''
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--> -- '''Ekaterin Lady '''Lady Ekaterin Vorkosigan''' on how she managed to make two empires listen up, ''Diplomatic Immunity''
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--> -- '''Ekaterin Lady Vorkosigan''' protesting too much, ''Diplomatic Immunity''
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--> -- '''Ekaterin Lady '''Lady Ekaterin Vorkosigan''' protesting too much, ''Diplomatic Immunity''
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-> "Money, power, sex....and elephants."
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-> "Money, power, sex....sex... and elephants."
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--> -- '''Gregor''' in the role of emperor to the renegade General Metz. ''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Gregor''' in the role of emperor to the renegade General Metz.Metzov. ''The Vor Game''
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--> -- ''Elena Bothari-Jezak'' as Captain Ungari is dragged away. ''The Vor Game''
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--> -- ''Elena Bothari-Jezak'' as Captain Ungari (The third superior officer that Miles has had thrown in the brig in that novel) is dragged away. ''The Vor Game''
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-> "- you can't mistake him, top of his head would be about level with your shoulder, carries a cane, talks a blue streak -"
--> -- '''Roic''' describing his boss, ''Cryoburn''
--> -- '''Roic''' describing his boss, ''Cryoburn''
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--> -- '''Tej''', fuming about how Ivan had led her astray concerning his status on Barrayar. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
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--> -- '''Tej''', fuming about how Ivan had led her astray concerning his status on Barrayar. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> "So Byerly, who came to warn us, and the Immigration officers, and those Dome cops who were trying to arrest Ivan Xav for kidnapping me, which he ''didn't'', all arrived at once before anyone had drunk any coffee,"
--> -- '''Tej, Lady Vorpatril''' describing her wedding. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> "Guy, has ImpSec HQ always been sort of....tilted up on one side?"
--> -- '''The Gregor''' and the answer is 'no'. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> "Oh my, that boy is ''so'' grounded!"
--> '''Tej''' on her cryogenically frozen elder brother who turns out to have been TheMole. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> "So Byerly, who came to warn us, and the Immigration officers, and those Dome cops who were trying to arrest Ivan Xav for kidnapping me, which he ''didn't'', all arrived at once before anyone had drunk any coffee,"
--> -- '''Tej, Lady Vorpatril''' describing her wedding. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> "Guy, has ImpSec HQ always been sort of....tilted up on one side?"
--> -- '''The Gregor''' and the answer is 'no'. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
-> "Oh my, that boy is ''so'' grounded!"
--> '''Tej''' on her cryogenically frozen elder brother who turns out to have been TheMole. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
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-> Oh, do that again!
---> -- '''Cordelia''' thinks this after seeing Aral smile for the first time.
---> -- '''Cordelia''' thinks this after seeing Aral smile for the first time.
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--> -- '''Count Vorkosigan''' being facetious. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Count Vorkosigan''' being facetious. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' most emphatically ''not'' joking. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' most emphatically ''not'' joking. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' upon encountering his emperor in a most unlikely place. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' upon encountering his emperor in a most unlikely place. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Miles''' noting Gregor seems to almost enjoy being slave labor. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' noting Gregor seems to almost enjoy being slave labor. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> '''Captain Tung''' on Miles as a strategist. ''Vor Games''
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--> '''Captain Tung''' on Miles as a strategist. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Gregor''' in the role of emperor to the renegade General Metz. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Gregor''' in the role of emperor to the renegade General Metz. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Gregor''' still in emperor-mode, ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Gregor''' still in emperor-mode, ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Miles''' finding Cavilo almost homey and routine. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' finding Cavilo almost homey and routine. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Commander Cavilo''' asking Miles a very good question. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Commander Cavilo''' asking Miles a very good question. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Miles''' unhappy with how things are going. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' unhappy with how things are going. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Tung''' sincerely apologizing to Captain Auson. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Tung''' sincerely apologizing to Captain Auson. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Miles''' being less than clear if perfectly accurate. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' being less than clear if perfectly accurate. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- ''Elena Bothari-Jezak'' as Captain Ungari is dragged away. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- ''Elena Bothari-Jezak'' as Captain Ungari is dragged away. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- A very bemused '''Elena''' on Miles negotiations. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- A very bemused '''Elena''' on Miles negotiations. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Gregor''' playing up to Miles' bluff. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Gregor''' playing up to Miles' bluff. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- ''Vor Games''
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--> -- ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> '''Gregor''' explaining Cavilo's mistake to her. ''Vor Games''
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--> '''Gregor''' explaining Cavilo's mistake to her. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Miles''' reassuring his cousin on his mental health. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' reassuring his cousin on his mental health. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Miles''' again, on why it is really too late for Gregor to shove a torte up his nose. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' again, on why it is really too late for Gregor to shove a torte up his nose. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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--> -- '''Miles''' daring to be ironic to his acerb superior. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' daring to be ironic to his acerb superior. ''Vor Games''
''The Vor Game''
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-> "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by others means. Chou En Lai, Twentieth Century, Earth"
--> -- '''Miles''' repeating a famous - and applicable - quote, ''Cetaganda''
-> "Try not to start a war single...mouthed, eh?"
--> -- '''Miles''' to the famously tactless Ivan, ''Cetaganda''
-> "If I knew how the haut women do it I'd bottle it and sell it. NO, better - I think I'd keep it for myself."
--> -- Madame Maz on the famous haut-lady allure. ''Cetaganda''
-> ''Ooh, I adore competent women. Do you have a younger sister, milady Maz?''
--> -- '''Miles''' being impressed. ''Cetaganda''
-> "- No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." ''Not when the enemy is me.''
--> -- '''Miles''' indulging in a little justified egotism. ''Cetaganda''
-> He'd always wanted to save the Empire. The Cetagandan just wasn't the empire he'd pictured, was all.
--> -- '''Miles''' losing it, ''Cetaganda''
-> ''A Degtiar empress named Lisbet/ Trapped a satrap lord neatly in his net/ Enticed into treason/ For all the wrong reasons' He'll soon have a crash with his kismet.''
--> -- '''Miles''' having an attack of limricks. ''Cetaganda''
-> ''Stop it. These women are users, you know that. Oh, God, Let me be used...''
--> -- '''Miles''' on ghem ladies. ''Cetaganda''
-> "I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously."
--> -- '''Ivan''' on their increasingly dire situation. ''Cetaganda''
-> "In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try."
--> -- '''Miles''' surprising Rian. ''Cetaganda''
-> "Agh! What did you think? That because he's taller, and, and cuter, he had to be running this show? It's the haut way, isn't it? You-you ''morons!'' I'm the brains of this outfit!"
--> -- '''Miles''' rants. ''Cetaganda''
-> "- egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats."
--> -- '''Miles''' quoting his mother. ''Cetaganda''
--> -- '''Miles''' repeating a famous - and applicable - quote, ''Cetaganda''
-> "Try not to start a war single...mouthed, eh?"
--> -- '''Miles''' to the famously tactless Ivan, ''Cetaganda''
-> "If I knew how the haut women do it I'd bottle it and sell it. NO, better - I think I'd keep it for myself."
--> -- Madame Maz on the famous haut-lady allure. ''Cetaganda''
-> ''Ooh, I adore competent women. Do you have a younger sister, milady Maz?''
--> -- '''Miles''' being impressed. ''Cetaganda''
-> "- No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." ''Not when the enemy is me.''
--> -- '''Miles''' indulging in a little justified egotism. ''Cetaganda''
-> He'd always wanted to save the Empire. The Cetagandan just wasn't the empire he'd pictured, was all.
--> -- '''Miles''' losing it, ''Cetaganda''
-> ''A Degtiar empress named Lisbet/ Trapped a satrap lord neatly in his net/ Enticed into treason/ For all the wrong reasons' He'll soon have a crash with his kismet.''
--> -- '''Miles''' having an attack of limricks. ''Cetaganda''
-> ''Stop it. These women are users, you know that. Oh, God, Let me be used...''
--> -- '''Miles''' on ghem ladies. ''Cetaganda''
-> "I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously."
--> -- '''Ivan''' on their increasingly dire situation. ''Cetaganda''
-> "In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try."
--> -- '''Miles''' surprising Rian. ''Cetaganda''
-> "Agh! What did you think? That because he's taller, and, and cuter, he had to be running this show? It's the haut way, isn't it? You-you ''morons!'' I'm the brains of this outfit!"
--> -- '''Miles''' rants. ''Cetaganda''
-> "- egalitarians adjust to aristocracies just fine, as long as they get to be the aristocrats."
--> -- '''Miles''' quoting his mother. ''Cetaganda''
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-> '''Ekaterine''': "Oh. Drat."
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-> '''Ekaterine''': '''Ekaterin''': "Oh. Drat."
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--> Exchange while waist deep and deeper in water in ''Komarr''
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--> -- Exchange while waist deep and deeper in water in ''Komarr''
-> [Miles] eloquence had inspired his soldiers to face death, in the past or so he dimly recalled. ''Now let's try something really hard.''
--> -- Like talking a scared nine year old into going to school. Of course '''Miles''' succeeds. ''Komarr''
-> "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
--> -- '''Miles's''' case is not going well, ''Komarr''
--> -- Like talking a scared nine year old into going to school. Of course '''Miles''' succeeds. ''Komarr''
-> "We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
--> -- '''Miles's''' case is not going well, ''Komarr''
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-> '''The Professora''': Remembering my grandmother, it's possible."
--> -- A discussion on Vorfemme knives. ''Komarr''
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-> ''Someday, Miles, I hope you live to have a dozen subordinates just like you.''
--> -- '''Simon Illyan''' formally curses his most impossible subordinate. ''Komarr''
-> "The devil's bargain part about being Vor, which a lot of people including some Vor overlook, is that our lives are made for sacrifice."
--> -- '''Miles''' explaining why holding Ekaterin and the Professor hostage won't work, ''Komarr''
-> '''Foscol''': "We are not terrorists."
-> '''Miles''': "No? You've succeeded in terrifying ''me''."
--> -- ''Komarr'
-> The man could charm snakes from their holes, nine-year-olds from locked bathrooms, and Komarran terrorists from their bunkers.
--> -- '''Ekaterin Vorsoisson's''' opinion of Miles. ''Komar''
-> "Lord Vorkosigan. Can I take a number and get in line?"
--> -- '''Ekaterin''' after Miles' lists his former romantic interests.
--> -- '''Simon Illyan''' formally curses his most impossible subordinate. ''Komarr''
-> "The devil's bargain part about being Vor, which a lot of people including some Vor overlook, is that our lives are made for sacrifice."
--> -- '''Miles''' explaining why holding Ekaterin and the Professor hostage won't work, ''Komarr''
-> '''Foscol''': "We are not terrorists."
-> '''Miles''': "No? You've succeeded in terrifying ''me''."
--> -- ''Komarr'
-> The man could charm snakes from their holes, nine-year-olds from locked bathrooms, and Komarran terrorists from their bunkers.
--> -- '''Ekaterin Vorsoisson's''' opinion of Miles. ''Komar''
-> "Lord Vorkosigan. Can I take a number and get in line?"
--> -- '''Ekaterin''' after Miles' lists his former romantic interests.
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--> -- '''Miles''' responding to Ekaterin's invitation. ''Komarr''
-> "We seduced him to the service of the Imperium. We've agreed it was the shiny boots that turned the trick."
--> -- '''Miles''' on Duv Galeni, ''Komarr''
-> '''Ekaterine''': "Oh. Drat."
-> '''Miles''': "Madame Vorsoisson, has it ever occurred to you that you may be just a touch oversocialized?"
--> Exchange while waist deep and deeper in water in ''Komarr''
-> ''Ask your soldier's heart, woman. Is deserting the night before the battle any better than deserting in the heat?''
--> -- '''Ekaterin''' meditating on leaving her husband, ''Komarr''
-> '' Thank God you're safe'' and ''I'm going to strangle you with my bare hands.''
--> -- A surprisingly common reaction to '''Miles Vorkosigan''', ''Komarr''
-> ''When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, 'He didn't hit me.'''
--> -- '''Miles''' on the late Tien Vorsoisson, ''Komarr''
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-> ''So does this mean seven thousand years bad luck?''
--> -- '''Lord Auditor Vorkosigan''' referring to the broken solar mirror, ''Komarr'
-> "I once slept for six weeks on bare dirt. With tenthousand extremely grubby Marilacans, many of whom snored."
--> -- '''Miles''' assuring his hosted, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, that he will be happy to sleep in her workroom, ''Komarr''
-> "All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters."
--> -- '''Lord Auditor Vorthys''' on genius and Miles, ''Komarr''
-> " - the whole Barrayaran Vor system runs on nepotism. It's not a vice for us, it's a lifestyle."
--> -- '''Miles''' on the way Barrayarans do things. ''Komarr''
-> Judging from the common names, the lost Barrayaran colonists had not loved their new xenobotany: damnweed, henbloat, goatbane....
--> -- '''Miles''' reflecting on Ekaterin's Barrayaran garden, ''Komarr''
--> -- '''Lord Auditor Vorkosigan''' referring to the broken solar mirror, ''Komarr'
-> "I once slept for six weeks on bare dirt. With tenthousand extremely grubby Marilacans, many of whom snored."
--> -- '''Miles''' assuring his hosted, Ekaterin Vorsoisson, that he will be happy to sleep in her workroom, ''Komarr''
-> "All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters."
--> -- '''Lord Auditor Vorthys''' on genius and Miles, ''Komarr''
-> " - the whole Barrayaran Vor system runs on nepotism. It's not a vice for us, it's a lifestyle."
--> -- '''Miles''' on the way Barrayarans do things. ''Komarr''
-> Judging from the common names, the lost Barrayaran colonists had not loved their new xenobotany: damnweed, henbloat, goatbane....
--> -- '''Miles''' reflecting on Ekaterin's Barrayaran garden, ''Komarr''
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-> "Think of the London police not as your enemies, but as your dearest friends. They are, you know. Because until them get done with you, I can't start."
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-> "Think of the London police not as your enemies, but as your dearest friends. They are, you know. Because until them they get done with you, I can't start."
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-> ''I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.
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-> ''I may be small, but I screw up big because I'm standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.''
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-> ''Body of Imperial Officer Found in Flesh-Czar's Dream Palace. Death From Exhaustion?''
--> -- '''Miles''' imagining the headlines back home if he dies in Ryoval's. ''Labyrinth''
-> "Take off your clothes, and lie down with me as ''humans'' do. Men and women."
--> -- '''Taura''' making a very blunt proposition. ''Labyrinth''
-> ''Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex-starved teenage wereworlf.''
--> -- '''Miles's''' thoughts on the subject. ''Labyrinth''
-> "-it's not how much force you use. It's where you apply it."
--> -- '''Miles''' giving Taura her first lesson in tactics. ''Labyrinth''
-> "The little man is mine. You gave him to me yourself. He came ''back'' for me. Hurt him one little bit, and I'll tear your head off and then I'll drink your blood."
--> -- '''Taura''' being very convincing. ''Labyrinth''
-> "This is a paid political rescue."
--> -- '''Miles''' explaining himself. ''The Borders of Infinity''
--> -- '''Miles''' imagining the headlines back home if he dies in Ryoval's. ''Labyrinth''
-> "Take off your clothes, and lie down with me as ''humans'' do. Men and women."
--> -- '''Taura''' making a very blunt proposition. ''Labyrinth''
-> ''Trapped in Ryoval's basement with a sex-starved teenage wereworlf.''
--> -- '''Miles's''' thoughts on the subject. ''Labyrinth''
-> "-it's not how much force you use. It's where you apply it."
--> -- '''Miles''' giving Taura her first lesson in tactics. ''Labyrinth''
-> "The little man is mine. You gave him to me yourself. He came ''back'' for me. Hurt him one little bit, and I'll tear your head off and then I'll drink your blood."
--> -- '''Taura''' being very convincing. ''Labyrinth''
-> "This is a paid political rescue."
--> -- '''Miles''' explaining himself. ''The Borders of Infinity''
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-> "I admit, I didn't have a direct order to rescue Gregor, I just assumed you'd want it done. Sir."
--> -- '''Miles''' daring to be ironic to his acerb superior. ''Vor Games''
--> -- '''Miles''' daring to be ironic to his acerb superior. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Miles''' unhappy with how things are going. ''Vor Games''
-> "Auson, you can be a real shithead sometimes, but dammit, you can fight when you have to. I've seen you. In the tight and the bad and the crazy, I'll take you at my back over any other captain in the fleet."
--> -- '''Tung''' sincerely apologizing to Captain Auson. ''Vor Games''
-> "[Emperor Gregor] is safe, but in great danger."
--> -- '''Miles''' being less than clear if perfectly accurate. ''Vor Games''
-> "- you sure are hard on your commanding officers."
--> -- ''Elena Bothari-Jezak'' as Captain Ungari is dragged away. ''Vor Games''
-> "...am I reading too much into all that innuendo, or did you in fact just connive to assassinate Gregor in one breath, offer to cuckhold him in the next, accuse your father of homosexuality, suggest a patricidal plot against him, and league yourself with Cavilo... what are you going to do for an encore?"
--> -- A very bemused '''Elena''' on Miles negotiations. ''Vor Games''
-> "His meds must be further off-dose than I thought,"
--> -- '''Gregor''' playing up to Miles' bluff. ''Vor Games''
-> '''Miles''': "You realize, Gregor, you did this? Sabotaged the Cetagandan invasion singlehandedly?"
-> '''Gregor''': "Oh, it took both hands."
--> -- ''Vor Games''
-> "Did you think you were dealing with an ''amateur''?"
--> '''Gregor''' explaining Cavilo's mistake to her. ''Vor Games''
-> "Gregor, I'm sorry, but I just don't think Mad Emperor Gregor is in the cards. It's your ''advisors'' who are going to go crazy."
--> -- '''Miles''' reassuring his cousin on his mental health. ''Vor Games''
-> "The cream pie of justice flies one way."
--> -- '''Miles''' again, on why it is really too late for Gregor to shove a torte up his nose. ''Vor Games''
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--> -- '''Count Vorkosigan''' being facetious. ''Vor Games''
-> "I could play Naismith again, sure. It's ''stopping'' playing Naismith that scares me."
--> -- '''Miles''' most emphatically ''not'' joking. ''Vor Games''
-> "Gregor! Am I glad to see you. ''What the hell are you doing here?''
--> -- '''Miles''' upon encountering his emperor in a most unlikely place. ''Vor Games''
-> ''Maybe we ought to send him to the salt mines for two weeks every year, to keep him happy and content with his regular job.''
--> -- '''Miles''' noting Gregor seems to almost enjoy being slave labor. ''Vor Games''
-> "Accident? Maybe.... Your 'accidents,' I once noticed, have ways of entangling your enemies that are the green envy of mature and careful strategists."
--> '''Captain Tung''' on Miles as a strategist. ''Vor Games''
-> "A parole is a promise given between honorable enemies. Your honor I am willing to assume. But are you thus declaring yourself Our enemy?"
--> -- '''Gregor''' in the role of emperor to the renegade General Metz. ''Vor Games''
-> "I'm Vor, ma'am. In a sense, ''the'' Vor. Risk in service is the Vorish trade. I wouldn't assume my value was infinite, if I were you."
--> -- '''Gregor''' still in emperor-mode, ''Vor Games''
-> ''Homicidal paranoids are as familiar as breakfast, I had one for a bodyguard for seventeen years.''
--> -- '''Miles''' finding Cavilo almost homey and routine. ''Vor Games''
-> "How many people ''are'' you, anyway?"
--> -- '''Commander Cavilo''' asking Miles a very good question. ''Vor Games''
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-> "But Miles - our mysterious and wealthy strangers want to hire Admiral aismith to kidnap Lord Miles Vorkosigan from the Barrayaran embassy."
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-> "But Miles - our mysterious and wealthy strangers want to hire Admiral aismith Naismith to kidnap Lord Miles Vorkosigan from the Barrayaran embassy."
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-> "Ovian, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, 'What did I say? What did I say?'"
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-> "Ovian, "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, 'What did I say? What did I say?'"
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--> -- '''Miles''' on leaps of faith, ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "Your forward momentum is going to lead all your followers over a cliff someday. On the way down, you'll convince 'em all they can fly. Lead on, my lord. I'm flapping as hard as I can."
--> -- '''Mayhew''' on Miles' leadership style. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede ''toward'' one.
--> -- '''Miles''' on his compatriots dubious sanity. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
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--> -- '''Miles''' on his new Dendarii Mercenaries. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> A True Vor does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breast and cry - even if he is at a convenient height for it.
--> -- '''Miles''' to himself as things get complicated, ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> He had not demanded the Sergeant's nocturnal company of the grounds that there were Things in his closet since he was four.
--> -- '''Miles''' worried about 'Things' growing in his new bathroom. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "Other people get to hallucinate orgies and giant cicadas and things. What do I get? Relatives. I can see relatives when I'm conscious. It's not fair..."
--> -- '''Miles''' thinking Ivan is another hallucination. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "Ovian, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, 'What did I say? What did I say?'"
--> -- '''Miles''' on Ivan's lack of tact. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
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-> "A junior officer is required to stand and salute when a senior officer enters. Not hide under the bed."
--> -- '''Miles''' to Ivan when his father knocks on the door, ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> ''Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan. Occupation: security risk. Hobbies: falling off walls, disappointing sick old men to death, making girls cry...''
--> -- '''Miles''' feeling sorry for himself. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "- unless you happen to be carrying two pairs of swords and are prepared to, say, offer an insult to Pilot Officer Mayhew's mother, you will simply have to -ah- contain yourself."
--> -- '''Miles''' protecting his new liegeman from Betan Security, ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "Being Vor is-is like wearing an invisible uniform you can never take off."
--> -- '''Miles''' explaining to Mayhew why he should call him 'my lord'. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "Repeat after me. I, Bazil Jesek, do testify I am, am, am a forsworn military vassal of Gregor Vorbarra, but I take service anyway under-under-under this lunatic in front of me - make that, this Vor lunatic - as an armsman simple, and will hold him as my liege commander until my death or his releases me."
--> -- '''Miles''' swearing in Baz Jesek, ''Warrior's Apprentice''
--> -- '''Miles''' to Ivan when his father knocks on the door, ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> ''Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan. Occupation: security risk. Hobbies: falling off walls, disappointing sick old men to death, making girls cry...''
--> -- '''Miles''' feeling sorry for himself. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "- unless you happen to be carrying two pairs of swords and are prepared to, say, offer an insult to Pilot Officer Mayhew's mother, you will simply have to -ah- contain yourself."
--> -- '''Miles''' protecting his new liegeman from Betan Security, ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "Being Vor is-is like wearing an invisible uniform you can never take off."
--> -- '''Miles''' explaining to Mayhew why he should call him 'my lord'. ''Warrior's Apprentice''
-> "Repeat after me. I, Bazil Jesek, do testify I am, am, am a forsworn military vassal of Gregor Vorbarra, but I take service anyway under-under-under this lunatic in front of me - make that, this Vor lunatic - as an armsman simple, and will hold him as my liege commander until my death or his releases me."
--> -- '''Miles''' swearing in Baz Jesek, ''Warrior's Apprentice''
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--> "The Vorkosigan family motto might a well be, ''Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving''".
---> -- '''Ivan Vorpatril''' on his family. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
---> -- '''Ivan Vorpatril''' on his family. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
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-> ''Gregor'', he’d said. As if it might be just any Gregor off the street, and not, say, ''the absolute ruler of three worlds'', as far above a Great House baron as a baron was above a gutter grubber.
--> -- '''Tej''', fuming about how Ivan had led her astray concerning his status on Barrayar. ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance''
