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Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4) QUOTES

Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4) QUOTES

1 " 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: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

2 " 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: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

3 " Family took a lot more than genes to hold it together "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

4 " Prep for docking,” said the pilot’s voice over the intercom. “You’re off watch, and I’m not, you barves …” “Shower, food, sleep,” said Darman, prioritizing. Atin shook his head. “Food, shower, sleep.” “Sleep,” said Niner. “Then more sleep.” They looked at Corr. “Glorious revolution, then installing a military junta,” he said. Etain stared, not at all sure about his hidden depths, but he laughed. “Or a nice big plate of minced roba patties. I’m easy. "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

5 " It’s entirely possible that the Jedi’s increasingly clouded vision was the result of their own moral degeneration. They’d let so many of their principles slip that the reason they couldn’t see the dark side was so close to them was the lack of sharp contrast with themselves, like trying to see a gray nerf in fog. They turned off the light themselves. —Bardan Jusik, former Jedi Knight Kyrimorut, "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

6 " Covering his tracks by randomizing his route back to the apartment had become routine for Skirata now, which was a bizarre irony in itself. "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

7 " she worried that Jedi raised other Jedi in a constant soulless cycle of detached, cold indifference, "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

8 " 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 had tormented him was now fully his. It was wonderful, even if very few beings had a family as strife-prone, heavily armed, and bizarre as this. “But he never forgets his kids.” “I always knew he’d come back. "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

9 " 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: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

10 " Oh, you are a little ray of sunshine today, aren’t you? Now, look at your progesterone levels. Still higher than normal. Are you pregnant? Have you been throwing up?”
“No. But I get cravings. Will I get stretch marks?” said Fi.
Gilamar kept a straight face. “Yeah, say goodbye to your figure. Everything sags from now on. "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

11 " Maze: “I’m alerting HQ. Stand by.”
*on the private comlink*
Corr: “How are you Omega? Can we help? We’re really concerned that you’re stranded on a shabla rock surrounded by an infinite number of natives who’ll cut your gett’se off when they haul you screaming from the summit. "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)

12 " Order 66: In the event of Jedi officers acting against the interests of the Republic, and after receiving specific orders verified as coming directly from the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), GAR commanders will remove those officers by lethal force, and command of the GAR will revert to the Supreme Commander (Chancellor) until a new command structure is established. "

― Karen Traviss , Order 66: (Star Wars: Republic Commando, #4)