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Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2) QUOTES

Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2) QUOTES

1 " Well,” Han said with a sigh, “we’ve gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That’s progress of a sort. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

2 " You’re too old for fairy tales,” Baasen said. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

3 " Saying ‘no problem’ is a sure sign that everything is about to go terribly wrong,” Han said. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

4 " It didn’t blow up last time,” Han said. “Maybe it won’t blow up this time, either. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

5 " Brother. If I call you sister, you call me brother, see, because – "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

6 " Han had been in a thousand places like it, all across the galaxy. Some had been as large as star systems, others as small as a back room in a cantina. They were the niches of the universe … They were violent places, and they were joyful, and they didn’t last. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

7 " Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

8 " But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he’d become less of a rebel than he’d ever been. Flying off to assault yet another impossibly well-defended Imperial stronghold. It was getting to be a bad habit. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

9 " Han thought again of mystical energy fields and said a quiet thank-you to whoever or whatever might be looking out for them "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

10 " There were going to be plenty of them who would have been just as opposed to the Republic. Trust the wrong one, and they’d all be fed straight to the Empire. Leia. Luke. All of them. It was the nature of the game. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

11 " I was afraid you were in trouble for a second, Your Highnessness,” Han said, but the barb sounded hollow and unconvincing. Leia looked up at him, and the softness in her face told him that she’d heard the relief in his voice. He might just as well have said I thought I’d lost you.
“No such luck,” she said softly. He was surprised by the power of his urge to sweep her into his arms and kiss her. For a moment, there was something else in her expression—apprehension or hope or something of both. She blinked and looked away. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

12 " I’m not embarrassed,” Han said to the back of her head. “I am a very good-looking man.”
“Indeed you are, sir,” the droid replied. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

13 " So how did you wind up joining the Rebellion?”
“An old guy and a kid were looking for a ride and I needed the money,” Han said. “After that, it was just bad luck. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

14 " We’re not anarchists,” she said. “We have goals. We want to end the Empire.”
“And replace it with what?
“You know what,” Scarlet said. Her crossed arms matched his own. “Are you trying to make fun of me?”
“It was rhetorical. I’ve heard the speech, sweetheart. ‘A glorious return to the Republic of old.’ To a guy like me, a new boss is still a boss. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

15 " No one’ll see us coming,” Han said. “And everyone dies sometime.”
“Not comforting.”
“The alternative is we go spend a bunch of time waiting for you to come up with some other plan that doesn’t work. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

16 " If the last few weeks had taught Han anything, it was that he didn’t belong in the civilised part of her world. His place was in the bowels of the Falcon, or the pilot’s seat. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

17 " What about you?” Scarlet asked. “You have to enjoy the fear, too. Just a little?”
“Not the fear,” Han said. “I just like being a little smarter than the next guy.”
“That’s all it is?”
“That, and I really hate paying taxes. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

18 " Han noticed that there wasn’t a chair at that table for him. Probably because he’d said he wouldn’t come. It seemed a little rude of them to take him at his word. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

19 " Everyone’s got history,” Baasen said amiably. “Man still has to work, whatever’s in his past, eh? "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)

20 " I have lots of friends,” Han said. “No, my dear boy, you don’t. What you’ve got are accomplices. "

― James S.A. Corey , Honor Among Thieves (Star Wars: Empire and Rebellion, #2)