“With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.”

“Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.”

“He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if hed peed himself, it didnt matter, none of it mattered...”

“Don't let 'em see they killed you!”

“The Army might screw you and your girlfriend might dump you and the enemy might kill you, but the shared commitment to safeguard one anothers lives is unnegotiable and only deepens with time. The w...”

“Women shouldn't be in combat," said Vorkosigan, grimly glum. "Neither should men, in my opinion.”

“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.”