My thoughts on casting for an AppleTV or HBO series on the Vorkosigan series

Miles - Peter Dinklage
Aral - Sean Bean
Cordelia - Olivia Coleman
Bothari - Zachary Baharov
Taura - Gwendoline Christie
Illyan - Thomas Jane
Tung - Hiroyuki Sanada
Byerly - Michael Urie
Ivan - Alexander Skarsgård
Piotr - Rade Serbedzija
Gregor - Keon Alexander
Elena - Cara Gee
Alys - Shohreh Aghdashloo

#Vorkosigan #VorkosiganSaga #VorkosiganSeries

“Gave it up?” said Ivan. “That’s no good. Just because someone else is some sort of natural flaming genius, doesn’t mean that you’re an idi . . . um.” Um. “Doesn’t mean that you should . . .” He tried rushing the notion. “Should hide your light under the covers.”

Excerpt From
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

I thought I knew everything. Surely I knew nothing. How had his own life become such a surprise to him, so utterly rearranged? His brain had whirled with a thousand plans for these tiny lives, visions of the future both hopeful and dire, funny and fearful. For a moment, it seemed to come to a full stop. I have no idea who these two people are going to be.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

It wasn't enough that humans did something so difficult as learning to play a musical instrument. Then they had to do it in groups. While walking around. In complicated patterns. And then they competed with one another to do it even better. Excellence, this kind of excellence could never have any sane economic justification. It had to be done for the honor of one's country, or one's people, or the glory of God. For the joy of being human.

Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

But if all the progressive-minded men had opted out then, as you are proposing to do now, none of the changes I've seen in my lifetime could have happened. We've changed. We can change some more. Not instantly, no. But if all the decent folks quit and only the idiots are left to run the show, it won't be good for the future.

Excerpt From
Diplomatic Immunity
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“It occurred to him that back when he was a Hassadar guard, he'd never once gone into a house to clean up a bad scene, blood on the walls and evil smells in the air, where there were books like this.”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - Winterfair Gifts
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga

“If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?”

Excerpt From
Miles in Love - A Civil Campaign
Lois McMaster Bujold
#VorkosiganSaga