“ Regular people said they couldn’t tell the difference between one clone and another, did they? That was what came of spending too much time looking at faces and not enough wondering what shaped people… Karen Traviss
“ It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes. Karen Traviss
“ 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 Karen Traviss
“ I shall remain vigilant and unyielding in my pursuit of the enemies of the Coalition.I will defend and maintain the Order of Life as it was proclaim by the Allfathers of the Coalition in the Octus Can… Karen Traviss
“ I don’t know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It’s the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out f… Karen Traviss
“ Humans believed they thought things consciously when most of the time they were simply rationalizing instinctive reactions as basic as the amoeba’s, and after those reactions had already taken place. Karen Traviss
“ But it wasn’t a moment’s emotion for his grandfather: it was the whole of him. Anakin had been driven to the dark side by agonized love. The revelation stunned Jacen because it was so narrow and so … … Karen Traviss
“ Armor does not make a Mandalorian. The armor is simply a manifestation of an impenetrable, unassailable heart. Karen Traviss
“ And he explained that there was no Mandalorian word for hero. It was only not being one that had its own word: Hut’uun. Karen Traviss
“ A military life attracts young people for many reasons—duty, comradeship, purpose, the opportunity to test life to the limits, to learn a trade, escape from home, adventure—even patriotism. Karen Traviss
“ 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… Karen Traviss
“ When wars end, all the shit comes tumbling out. People talk, point fingers at each other, reveal things they’ve kept quiet for years. Karen Traviss
“ What happens to people when they realize they’re never going to die? Wow. The whole human existence is predicated on inevitable death. Karen Traviss
“ What are these things? he asked. I saw them on the river, too. Ruby- and sapphire-colored insects were dancing above the surface of the puddle. Daywings, Etain said. I’ve never seen colors like it. Th… Karen Traviss
“ 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… 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
“ She held her hand out to him. He hesitated for a moment and then reached across the table and took it. We could be dead tomorrow, both of us, she said. Or the next day, or next week. That’s war. She t… Karen Traviss
“ 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 Karen Traviss
“ Is it better to not get to know them?' 'No. It's not. It's sharking your responsibility, and it's disrespectful. Get to know them, and then you fully understand the price you're asking them to pay. Karen Traviss
“ If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring eve… Karen Traviss
