Quotes from Jack Campbell

It's funny how much you don't realize about the people you've spent your whole life with, isn't it?

Of course, sir. There won't be any screwups. Hell, Colonel, there are always screwups in any operation. Let's just keep them within reason.

Geary looked at Dr. Nasr, running the physician's words through his mind. "We need to be sure we're asking the right question in order to get the right answer? Is that what you're saying?" "Yes. If you only think you know the question, the answers you come up with will not be adequate or correct.

Can you row some more?" "The engines cannae take no more, Captain," Jason muttered in an accent stranger than his usual one, then turned a grin on her. "That's another ancient joke.

I can't believe we survived that." "I can't believe how you can fight." "I was scared to death. I hardly knew what I was doing." Jason shook his head. "I'd hate to fight you when you did know what you were doing.

Yes," Kira said, wondering why a boy who had come to another world in a silvery ship would find that impressive. "Come on! We need to get good seats." Jason followed, staring around like a kid from the Great Woods encountering his first Mechanic devices.

We spend all of our time doing that stuff instead of talking to the people right next to us, the people who know us. I don't know them and they don't know me. How can you find yourself when you're part of an infinite crowd and everybody is yelling?

But people can hurt other people or they can help other people, and I don't want to be someone who hurts.

You'd have every right to complain." "Somebody warned me that if I kept complaining she'd hurt me," Jason said, grinning.

love makes people delusional, Jason! You aren't seeing me anymore. Your delusions are causing you to see some illusion of me that is far, far better than I could ever actually be.

Do you know what happens to politicians who tell the truth? They get voted out of office. We must lie to the voters. Tell them the truth, and they punish us. Lie, and they reward us.

You had a good time today, right?" Kira asked. "Wasn't it amazing?" "Yeah," Jason repeated. "But anything with you is amazing.

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose." She

the preserver on one side and the destroyer on the other.

How did you know if I could swim?" he demanded, shaking water from his face. "Shouldn't you have found out if I could swim before you threw me into a river?" "Yeah," Kira said. "I should have done that. Let's—" "You're insane! Rational people do not shove other people off of trains!

My father always said that false love is an attempt to force another person to be subjugated to your own illusion, to make that person nothing but a part of you that you can direct and control. But real love means the other person's illusion is more important than yours. You put them first. Like you put me first.

Como dice el viejo refrán, a veces el peligro no reside en lo que ignoras, sino en lo que crees saber.

Why does everything have to be so complicated?" Kira complained. "Everything is simple," Alera said. "Doing it is complicated.

Who is coming up with this plan? Smart Kira or Crazy Kira?" She grinned. "Smart Kira, though according to my mother in the last few years there may be a fine line dividing her from Crazy Kira.

Jason slumped over, his eyes closed. "Gotta save lives," he mumbled. "Gotta save people." Opening his eyes, he began working off his own boots.

Almost invisible in the dark, he sighed. "Why am I doing this?" "Because you're a better person than you think you are.

Kira? Thanks." "For what?" "Being somebody I never lied to. I didn't think I could do that." "You're welcome," Kira said. "There are probably a lot of things you could do, things you could be, that you don't think you could.

A corporate state run by dictators who call themselves servants of the people they enslave.

They just hoped to survive, and maybe to be the heroes that young men and women dream of being before they become old enough and experienced enough to realize that real glory never comes to those who seek it. They