“Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.”
―
Karen Traviss,
True Colors
“If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.” ― Karen Traviss
“So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge.” ― Karen Traviss
“Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying” ― Karen Traviss, Order 66
“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 for your comrades.” ― 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 every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance ” ― Karen Traviss, Order 66
“We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.” ― Karen Traviss, Hard Contact
“If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?” ― Karen Traviss
“Your prowess with a lightsaber is childish vanity. Your physical Force powers are no more than a conjurer's trick, sleight of hand to dazzle the ordinary beings you should be serving. You profane these powers by using them as weapons in war. And you fail to grasp the single, simple, uncompromising duty of the true Jedi. The Jedi is the rock-lion at the gate who says, "I will defend these beings with my life, and that is the sum of me." Etain Tur-Mukan died to save one life, a man she did not even know, but felt compelled to save, and that is what made her stronger in the Force and a truer Jedi than any of you acrobats, tricksters, and specious, empty philosophers.” ― Karen Traviss
“Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.” ― Karen Traviss
“And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.” ― Karen Traviss
“Scorch: "I think Sev might have an anger problem." Sev: "I think you have an intelligence problem.” ― Karen Traviss, Triple Zero
“If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.” ― Karen Traviss
“It ain't what you say: it's how you say it.” ― Karen Traviss
“Any sign of what killed him, Scorch?""Let's ask Sev. He's a dead-body-ologist."[Sev examines the body and its arm falls off]"Yep, he's dead alright.”"Sure you don't want a second opinion, Doc?""Nah, I'm ready go out on a limb.” ― Karen Traviss, True Colors
“We have an understanding. I don’t laugh at his skirt, and he doesn’t rip my head off.”-Fi Skirata” ― Karen Traviss, Triple Zero
“It's okay to be scared as long as you use it.” ― Karen Traviss
“Your boys okay?”“Tired, edgy, but giving it all they’ve got. One of ‘em has sworn to get Vau, another is having a love affair with a woman he shouldn’t even look at, I’m collecting waifs and strays like an animal shelter, and we nearly killed a treasury agent. But if I told you the really bad stuff, you’d think I have problems.” ― Karen Traviss, Triple Zero
“Vau: "We were having a philosophical discussion, as Mandalorians often do, and I asserted that the only demonstrable reality was individual consciousness, but he insisted on the existence of a priori moral values that transcended free will. So I hit him." Zey: "You think you're so witty." Vau: "No, I think you should stay out of Mando clan business.” ― Karen Traviss, Order 66
“If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.” ― Karen Traviss
“So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge.” ― Karen Traviss
“Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying” ― Karen Traviss, Order 66
“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 for your comrades.” ― 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 every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance ” ― Karen Traviss, Order 66
“We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.” ― Karen Traviss, Hard Contact
“If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?” ― Karen Traviss
“Your prowess with a lightsaber is childish vanity. Your physical Force powers are no more than a conjurer's trick, sleight of hand to dazzle the ordinary beings you should be serving. You profane these powers by using them as weapons in war. And you fail to grasp the single, simple, uncompromising duty of the true Jedi. The Jedi is the rock-lion at the gate who says, "I will defend these beings with my life, and that is the sum of me." Etain Tur-Mukan died to save one life, a man she did not even know, but felt compelled to save, and that is what made her stronger in the Force and a truer Jedi than any of you acrobats, tricksters, and specious, empty philosophers.” ― Karen Traviss
“Think of yourselves as a hand. Each of you is a finger, and without the others you're useless. Alone, a finger can't grasp, or control, or form a fist. You are nothing on your own, and everything together.” ― Karen Traviss
“And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.” ― Karen Traviss
“Scorch: "I think Sev might have an anger problem." Sev: "I think you have an intelligence problem.” ― Karen Traviss, Triple Zero
“If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all.” ― Karen Traviss
“It ain't what you say: it's how you say it.” ― Karen Traviss
“Any sign of what killed him, Scorch?""Let's ask Sev. He's a dead-body-ologist."[Sev examines the body and its arm falls off]"Yep, he's dead alright.”"Sure you don't want a second opinion, Doc?""Nah, I'm ready go out on a limb.” ― Karen Traviss, True Colors
“We have an understanding. I don’t laugh at his skirt, and he doesn’t rip my head off.”-Fi Skirata” ― Karen Traviss, Triple Zero
“It's okay to be scared as long as you use it.” ― Karen Traviss
“Your boys okay?”“Tired, edgy, but giving it all they’ve got. One of ‘em has sworn to get Vau, another is having a love affair with a woman he shouldn’t even look at, I’m collecting waifs and strays like an animal shelter, and we nearly killed a treasury agent. But if I told you the really bad stuff, you’d think I have problems.” ― Karen Traviss, Triple Zero
“Vau: "We were having a philosophical discussion, as Mandalorians often do, and I asserted that the only demonstrable reality was individual consciousness, but he insisted on the existence of a priori moral values that transcended free will. So I hit him." Zey: "You think you're so witty." Vau: "No, I think you should stay out of Mando clan business.” ― Karen Traviss, Order 66
