“Maybe the ultimate wound is the one that makes you miss the war you got it in.”

“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”

“Women tend to act heroically within their own moral universe, regardless of whether anyone else knows about it - donating more kidneys to nonrelatives than men do, for example. Men, on the other ha...”

“They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover.”

“Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.”

“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".”

“A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.”

“Above all, he loathed men who beat women; for, real men didnt exercise their strength on frail creatures, they joined the army and put Shazarias enemies in their graves.”

“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”

“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.”

“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over b...”

“How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'.”

“Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that.”