Quotes from Karen Traviss

All that she was, and all that she would be in the future, was because a clone soldier had put such undeserved faith in her that she had become that Jedi he imagined she was.

Aliit ori'shya tal'din. Family is more than bloodline. —Mandalorian proverb

And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me.

Before you handed someone power, you had to ask yourself if you'd be happy with the worst possible thing they could ever do with it.

My body's been here before a thousand times, and it gets on with the job without asking my brain if it has anything to say about opening fire.

We don't do psyop. We've never worked with Spartans before. And we're definitely not trained for this spook stuff. But how hard can it be? They were ODSTs. They could do anything. It was all about the right attitude—a commando's state of mind. "Hi, BB," Mal said. "Take us to Hinge-head World, then.

And he explained that there was no Mandalorian word for "hero." It was only not being one that had its own word: Hut'uun.

It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones—like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No

You ever worked with Wookiees?" The commandos shook their heads, wide-eyed. "Well, everything you've heard is true.

There's three things you should never believe—weather forecasts, the canteen menu, and intel.

But there hadn't been one day since she had parted from Omega Squad on Qiilura nine months ago that she hadn't agonized over the use of soldiers who had no choice, no rights, and no future in the Republic that they gave their lives to defend. It was wrong.

Doing the right thing even if there's nothing in it for you is the difference between civilisation and the cesspit we're in today.

We weren't the miscreants he was looking for. Something like that.

Success is everyone's child. Failure is an orphan." Omas smiled ruefully.

dwelling on life's restrictions didn't do much for anyone's morale.

savored the bizarre moment of epiphany; he had a sister, of sorts. And he had a wife, too, and a father, a legal one, and he had brothers. He was like any other man. The out-of-reach normal life that had tormented him was now fully his. It was wonderful, even if very few beings had a family as strife-prone, heavily armed, and bizarre as this. "But he never forgets his kids." "I always knew he'd come back.

In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.

The Engineer began dismantling the helmet at a breakneck speed, stacking the components—faceplate, lining, mikes, data processor, even microfans—on the nearest flat surface, a hydroplane-like structure on a small vessel.

she worried that Jedi raised other Jedi in a constant soulless cycle of detached, cold indifference

It was no more than a single grain of sand from a mountain of sins Halsey yeah to atone for, and it didn't change a thing for Kurt, but she had to start somewhere.

But such is power, you get it, then you do things with it. And then you have to live with it.

It's a protected historical building. They had to preserve the internal walls." It was the kind of obscure stuff Marcus was good at remembering, and it always came in handy.

The best way to deal with it was to gorge on it, overload himself with the pain until it ceased to have any meaning, and not try to avoid it.

The vibrations from deep in the planet had vanished for the time being, and the smell of chargrilled dog had been overwhelmed by shattered bowels and pulverized concrete.