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1 " Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed "
― Rachel Bach , Fortune's Pawn (Paradox #1)
2 " Nothing pisses me off like having my sacrifices undermined. "
― Rachel Bach , Honor's Knight (Paradox, #2)
3 " Cotter leaned forward. "Where do you get off being such a bossy bitch?"I looked him dead in the eyes. "I was born a bossy birch, so you can either roll with it or get rolled over. "
4 " The place had clearly been terraformed within an inch of its life; there was just no other way continents ended up perfectly square. "
― Rachel Bach , Heaven's Queen (Paradox #3)
5 " Right, right, I get it, you're a doctor, not a hacker. "
6 " "If I was afraid of dying, I couldn't do half the shit I do." I told him. "
7 " Did I pick safety or ambition? The slow and steady or the gamble? I smiled. Put like that, it wasn’t even a question. "
8 " Now, you might think it’s hard to look intimidating when you’re dressed in a ratty T-shirt, barefoot, and unarmed facing down a man who has a good ten inches on you, but that’s bullshit. Intimidation is all about attitude. All you have to do is let just how much you’d love to kick the other guy’s ass show on your face and even the biggest skullheads will start backing down. "
9 " They weren’t even taking me seriously enough to bother removing my guns, which I took as a personal insult. "
10 " The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good. "
11 " But fair warning, being drunk doesn’t slow down my head shots. "
12 " Memories are unruly things by nature. Some come when called, but most do exactly as they please, vanishing when you need them and popping up when you’d much rather they didn’t. "
13 " I’m not patient on a good day, and I hadn’t had any of those for a while. "
14 " He was leaning back on his bench, scratching his chin thoughtfully. “Why would Charkov sleep with you?” “Gee, I don’t know,” I said, glowering. “Maybe because he’s got good taste? "
15 " Otherwise, it would have been much easier to just shoot you and be done with it.” I disagreed. The fact that I was still alive after so many combat tours was a testament to exactly how hard it is to “just shoot me and be done with it. "
16 " The situation was so ridiculously bad it could have been the punch line of a joke, and if I hadn’t been the one getting punched, I probably would have laughed myself sick. "
17 " I didn’t often get to take the moral high ground. I was a mercenary, a killer for hire, and I made no apologies or excuses for how I lived my life. But while my hands would never be clean, I had honor. "
18 " That, plus the huge traffic jams I could see on the public skyways even at this distance, told me this was no place for sensible people. Hell, it was probably no place for Terrans. "
19 " You couldn’t trust people who treated life cheaply, she’d said, because they were the ones who’d sell you out for nothing. "
20 " I knew I’d have to face the music eventually, but for now, I was more than happy to procrastinate. "
