Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes about Children

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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

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children, Sorry, Maturity

"A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children, Blessing, Age

Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.382, Baen Books

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Children, Common Humanity, Hands

"A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.