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1 " Chetta said something about her and Jaxx helping each other,’ he said, keeping his voice level.
‘Why do you talk like that, anyway?’ Chetta asked, ignoring him. ‘What’s wrong with saying “you”?’
‘Who is “you”?’ Jaxx laughed. ‘You, Chetta? You, women? You, nobles? You, everyone-who-isn’t-Jaxx? Other houses speak sideways, think backwards, walk at angles. Goliaths talk straight and act true. Goliaths have no time for misunderstandings.’ He grunted. ‘Goliaths have no time.’
Chetta nodded. ‘And your apparent aversion to the word “I”? There surely can’t be any confusion about that.’
Jaxx shrugged. ‘Jaxx won’t live long. Jaxx needs his name to be remembered. "

― Mike Brooks , A Common Ground (Necromunda)

2 " Just because you were human didn't mean you weren't a monster. "

― Mike Brooks , Road to Redemption (Necromunda)

3 " Emil’s mouth dried as he heard his own thoughts twisted up and presented back to him, but as Solomon turned away he found that his well of defiance was not yet quite dry.
‘My progena will never believe your lies!’ he yelled at Solomon’s back.
The Alpha Legionnaire paused. Then he spoke without turning.
‘Why not? They believed yours. "

― Mike Brooks , The Brightest And Best (Warhammer 40,000)

4 " Leadership was about setting an example. "

― Mike Brooks , Rites of Passage (Lady Chettamandey #1)

5 " Flight and guidance systems are theoretically foolproof these days, but fools are surprisingly ingenious. "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Deeds (Keiko, #3)

6 " Striving for perfection is not foolish, but assuming you have achieved it most certainly is. "

― Mike Brooks , Alpharius: Head of the Hydra (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs #14)

7 " The galaxy’s huge, but humanity’s still only settled pinpricks of it,” Rourke replied, turning and leading the way towards the cargo bay once more, “and people who’ve made a career of doing the sort of things we do . . . well, we tend to cluster around the same pinpricks. It’s the nature of the business. "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Sky (Keiko, #2)

8 " As a result, the only sensible course of action for trade on a void station was to talk loudly, swagger noticeably, wear your weapons openly, and check everything twice; or, failing that, see who the people who could manage those things bought from and do the same, on the basis that those merchants were likely to be fairly honest at least some of the time. “Let’s "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Run (Keiko, #1)

9 " The cogitator was an old-fashioned affair, but Tekoa’s invocation of the Litany of Activation, his burning of the sacred incense, and his administration of the ritual blow to its side, appeared to appease the machine-spirit, and it flickered into life readily enough. "

― Mike Brooks , Rites of Passage (Lady Chettamandey #1)

10 " I must confess I get lost with all these shades of grey. "

― Mike Brooks , Rites of Passage (Lady Chettamandey #1)

11 " Almost invariably, any native with enough understanding of the system to bring it down has too much invested in it to want to see it fall, "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Sky (Keiko, #2)

12 " My dad never did anything, though,” Jenna continued. “He never . . . I don’t know, he never went off to join the star force so he could help guard ships, or anything. I don’t know if it was even because he was scared to. I think it’s just that he wouldn’t have got paid enough. "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Deeds (Keiko, #3)

13 " The way I see it, all governments are just a different flavour of bastard. "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Sky (Keiko, #2)

14 " Allies on whom you could not rely were sometimes worse than no allies at all. "

― Mike Brooks , Alpharius: Head of the Hydra (The Horus Heresy: Primarchs #14)

15 " Once a person gets outside, he gets all these ideas of being free, and that plays merry hell for a government.” He nodded firmly. “Keep a man inside behind steel walls and thick windows, tell him that what you do, it’s for his own protection. Make him think he relies on you, let him think the prison is his home, and he’ll thank you for it. "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Run (Keiko, #1)

16 " Let they who are without a shameful past cast the first grenade. "

― Mike Brooks , Road to Redemption (Necromunda)

17 " He bumped the door open with his hip and spun through, sweeping the rifle's barrel across what did indeed prove to be a small but well-appointed kitchen. He debated opening the drawers to ensure they weren't some sort of façade concealing a hiding place but decided against it; it was clearly just a d*** kitchen, and he didn't have Kelsier pegged as the sort of man who was paranoid enough to build a bolt-hole into a kitchen located in a secret network of tunnels in the middle of a lonely asteroid. You had to draw the line somewhere. "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Run (Keiko, #1)

18 " There’s always room to be someone else, and there’s always somewhere people will be willing to let the past slide.” He "

― Mike Brooks , Dark Run (Keiko, #1)