Lois McMaster Bujold Giving Quotations

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

You try to give away what you want yourself.