In, um, probably Cryoburn, Miles remembers a quote he once memorized. It turns out to be from "Descent of the Goddess Ishtar into the Lower World," and runs thus:
"I will break the door, I will wrench the lock,
I will smash the door-posts, I will force the doors.
I will bring up the dead to eat the living.
And the dead will outnumber the living."
The full text can be found at www.sacred-texts.com.
Lois McMaster Bujold tends to seed her stories with tons of quotes, Biblical, Shakespearean, and miscellaneous. Noticing and identifying them is an ongoing scavenger hunt for me, and I thought I'd better write them down so I'd know which "Hey, I know that one!" moments are new and which aren't.
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