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You think she's got a personality disorder? No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough.

Karen Traviss

You think she's got a personality disorder? No, she's just a nasty bitch. An unpleasant personality isn't a medical condition. Just a symptom of not being slapped around the head enough.

Tags: halo, karen traviss, personality disorders, psychiatry

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

Karen Traviss

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

Tags: can i steal that, spies

About Author
Karen Traviss is a science fiction author from Wiltshire, England. She is the author of the Wess'Har series, and has written tie-in material based on Star Wars, Gears of War, Halo, G.I. Joe and the newest Nomad Series working with Nick Cole and Jason Anspach. Her work crosses various forms of media including novels, short stories, comics, and video games.

Do we get to do assassinations?If we do, they never happened. You imagined them.Whoops. My trigger finger just slipped, Sarge. Honest.

Karen Traviss

Do we get to do assassinations?If we do, they never happened. You imagined them.Whoops. My trigger finger just slipped, Sarge. Honest.

Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid.

Karen Traviss

Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid.

Good grief, Rex, doesn't Skywalker tell his underlings to put clothes on? What does he think this is, a cruise liner?It was at times like this that Rex savoured the true value of his bucket. He silenc...

Karen Traviss

Good grief, Rex, doesn't Skywalker tell his underlings to put clothes on? What does he think this is, a cruise liner?It was at times like this that Rex savoured the true value of his bucket. He silenc...

Tags: anakin skywalker, captain rex, clone wars, gilad pellaeon, karen traviss, star wars

We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsib...

Karen Traviss

We have complete choice as individuals: the only decisions we can take are our own. And yet so many species use the state of being an individual as an excuse for inaction, helplessness and irresponsib...

Tags: moral, wess har

That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does.

Karen Traviss

That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does.

Tags: clone troopers, empire, karen traviss, star wars

Buy’ce gal, buy’ce talVebor’ad ures alitMhi draar baat’i meg’parjii’seKote lo’shebs’ul narit A pint of ale, a pint of bloodBuys men without a nameWe never care who wins the warSo you can keep your fam...

Karen Traviss

Buy’ce gal, buy’ce talVebor’ad ures alitMhi draar baat’i meg’parjii’seKote lo’shebs’ul narit A pint of ale, a pint of bloodBuys men without a nameWe never care who wins the warSo you can keep your fam...

People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.

Karen Traviss

People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way.

Tags: moral, wess har

Didn’t have a mother or a father, but a stranger willingly chose me to be his son. You had a mother and father, and they let strangers take you. No, General, don’t pity me. You’re the one who’s had th...

Karen Traviss

Didn’t have a mother or a father, but a stranger willingly chose me to be his son. You had a mother and father, and they let strangers take you. No, General, don’t pity me. You’re the one who’s had th...

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

Karen Traviss

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

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...

Karen Traviss

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...

Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started.

Karen Traviss

Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started.

Tags: jacinto s remnant, karen traviss

Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control.

Karen Traviss

Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control.

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...

Karen Traviss

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...

Tags: wess har

Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han

Karen Traviss

Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han

Anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them.

Karen Traviss

Anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them.

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

Karen Traviss

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available....

Tags: karen traviss, science fiction

Killed in a way I didn’t think I ever could. I’m appalled at what I can do. I don’t enjoy this. If you enjoyed it, Jacen, you would not be the one destined to become the Sith Lord. The

Karen Traviss

Killed in a way I didn’t think I ever could. I’m appalled at what I can do. I don’t enjoy this. If you enjoyed it, Jacen, you would not be the one destined to become the Sith Lord. The

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.-Aras

Karen Traviss

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.-Aras

Tags: responsibilities, rights, wess har