Quotes from Karen Traviss

Look. If you want to go back to the ship fully clothed and mostly sober, I promise I wont tell anyone.

think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han

Humans don't connect their actions with what befalls them. Don't they perceive time as linear?" They do," said Aitassi. "They just don't see why they should do anything individually to change their future to the one they want. All eight billion of them.

In the brief silence, an antique clock ticked with a sound like stones falling off a ledge.

Order 66: In the event of Jedi officers acting against the interests of the Republic, and after receiving specific orders verified as coming directly from the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established.

A dog has a military mind. He respects the chain of command. He needs to know who's in charge for the good of the whole pack, and if there's no leader, he'll take the job himself- because somebody has to. The difference between a human and a dog, though, is that the dog doesn't lie awake at night dreaming of having that power. p341

I bet you were a Boy Scout. You are incomprehensible. It's just a compliment.

Delta to Control, any sniper teams to the south of Embry? Any Gears at all?

Rock shrews. It had all started with damned rock shrews.

What happens to people when they realize they're never going to die? Wow. The whole human existence is predicated on inevitable death.

have to hand it to you, Esganikan. We put our boots on Earth soil less than fifteen minutes ago, and you've already offered to kick off a world war and pissed over all the diplomatic channels. Not bad. Give us another hour, and we can start Armageddon.

That much took no Force techniques to achieve, because a confident air of purpose often opened more doors than an ID pass. He

surrounded by snack and coffee shops that lived off the army of clerks.

As she let the mirage of a distant ruined town lull her into a meditative state, she could detect both of them in her mind somehow, and they felt…similar. Both obsessive; both so committed to their mission that anything was permissible in completing it.

You can run, he said. But you'll only die tired.-Boba Fett

I tell you this: think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.

Politics were the ultimate frustration.

There's only one thing that scares a Mando man," said Beviin, "and that's a Mando woman. Just make sure you don't forget their napkins.

Threats come in all guises. Not all soldiers are young males, and not all soldiers wear uniforms.

You can run," he said. "But you'll only die tired.

If you were a nomad, your nation traveled in your heart. And without the Mando heart, you had nothing -not even your soul- in whatever new conquest followed death

He'd known from the moment he started making it that it was more than just a special gift for his granddaughter. He accepted that it was a penance for failing to get one for Naomi, a subconscious motive buried in so shallow a grave that he could see the bones below with little effort.

Kig-Yar didn't think like humans, though. They'd tried imperial culture once and decided it wasn't for them. Maybe they were right: humans were constantly in denial about their ape-sized social circles, always pretending they could think on a global scale when history proved every time that they really couldn't.