Bujold Quote...

[fajrdrako]

kikibug13 (drat her!) posted the link to the irresistible Bujold Quotation Generator and that got me playing with it again, probably in hope of getting a quotation from Aral. No luck yet, but I love this one:

Gregor shrugged, eyes sliding aside from Elena's level look. "Like Baz, I deserted. Like Baz, I found it was not the improvement I'd hoped for." - from The Vor Game

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[kikibug13.livejournal.com]

Aw. I got a couple of Aral! *tries valiantly to resist the temptation to go back...*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to resist the temptation, too!

I got a good Cordelia one - "When he's cut, I bleed."

[order_of_chaos]

Oh, ow. I had to pry myself off that site with a crowbar. And I still have the urge to hunt down Vorkosigan books and read random bits of them.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Terrble, isn't it? And the urge to run to my bookcase and reread something now... It' a while since I've read Memory, for example.

[order_of_chaos]

*hunts down Memory*
*flips open*
*reads*

In his first encounter with her, Haroche had deeply offended this potential ally, as if the fact that she didn't appear in the goverment's organizational flow chart meant her power didn't exist.

All hail Alys Vorpatril.

*flipflipflip*

"Admiral Naismith was something I made up, Elli," he said gently. "He was my own invention. I'm an egotistical enough artist, I suppose, I'm glad you liked my creation. I made him up out of me, after all. But not all of me."

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oooh - I love Memory so much!

Alys is mighty.

He was my own invention. ...I made him up out of me, after all. But not all of me.

I would love to be able to put those words in Captain Jack Harkness' mouth.

[order_of_chaos]

Oh God. Yes. Done right, that could be truly incredible.
But if Captain Jack Harkness is his version of Naismith, where's the rest of him?

It's also something I think fairly often when I'm writing - that I'm using pieces of myself to create the story. I hadn't realised until now where I got it from.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

But if Captain Jack Harkness is his version of Naismith, where's the rest of him?

Deep inside. Or perhaps back in the persona that was on the TARDIS.

It's also something I think fairly often when I'm writing - that I'm using pieces of myself to create the story.

Very true. Always true.

I hadn't realised until now where I got it from.

Bujold put it well. But it's still there in other authors, too, and in our experience.

The thing is that Bujold puts it so clearly.

[filkferengi]

Lois' prose is so limpid and transparent, it's very easy to not realize just how clearly & far down she sees.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

it's very easy to not realize just how clearly & far down she sees.

And how well she expresses what she sees.