Karen Traviss Quotes

Why doesn't the fact that I'm human matter to human beings — Karen Traviss

It ain't what you say: it's how you say it. — Karen Traviss

The best way to stop worrying about your inevitable demise is to dwell on it morbidly until you're so bored that you forget it. — Karen Traviss

Humans would never tell the simple truth when a lie was available ... — Karen Traviss

It was as if the small differences mattered more than the really big ones - like you had to recognize something before you could hate it properly. No — 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

anything that was aware of its actions was capable of making choices about them. — Karen Traviss

Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han — Karen Traviss

Politics were the ultimate frustration. — Karen Traviss

That's how tyranny succeeds. When folks think it won't affect them until eventually it does. — Karen Traviss

In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless. — Karen Traviss

Scorch: "I think Sev might have an anger problem."
Sev: "I think you have an intelligence problem. — Karen Traviss

It's okay to be scared as long as you use it. — Karen Traviss

If you can't beat them, divide them. — Karen Traviss

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

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.
-Aras — Karen Traviss

If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us? — Karen Traviss

MARK DONALDSON WAY, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIA DAY, TWO MONTHS AFTER THE BATTLE OF EARTH, JANUARY 26, 2553. — Karen Traviss

I love being pushed out of my comfort zone. — Karen Traviss

If you're not prepared to do something in public, don't do it at all. — Karen Traviss

And knowing my luck ... that'll be the Engineer sign for Your mom's a skank. — Karen Traviss

And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair. — Karen Traviss

Hope was evil. It seduced you, then it dropped you on your ass so hard and so fast that you were worse off than when you started. — Karen Traviss

Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me. — Karen Traviss

Success is everyone's child. Failure is an orphan." Omas smiled ruefully. — Karen Traviss

Revenge might give you a warm feeling, but unless it delivers some lasting results you might as well have a nice cup of mocha instead. — Karen Traviss

I bet you were a Boy Scout."
"You are incomprehensible."
"It's just a compliment. — Karen Traviss

People who wouldn't dream of drowning a puppy in a barrel full of water think nothing of killing a fish the same slow way. — Karen Traviss

We have an understanding. I don't laugh at his skirt, and he doesn't rip my head off.
-Fi Skirata — Karen Traviss

And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me. — Karen Traviss

All ships ... we are now at battle stations. I expect this will now be known as the Second Battle of Fondor. — Karen Traviss

It never ceased to amaze Skirata how much simpler it was to buy and sell death than it was to pay taxes. — Karen Traviss

I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine. — Karen Traviss

Diplomacy is about dealing with those you rather avoid. — Karen Traviss

Hatred can be pushed aside, but it will always whisper in your ear. — Karen Traviss

I don't mind being shot at. It's having a government that lies to me that I hate. — Karen Traviss

Family took a lot more than genes to hold it together — Karen Traviss

If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined. — Karen Traviss

When wars end, all the shit comes tumbling out. People talk, point fingers at each other, reveal things they've kept quiet for years. — Karen Traviss

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

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. — Karen Traviss

Life was a trade-off between loneliness and inevitable peaks of joy or agony. — Karen Traviss

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters. — Karen Traviss

I wish you'd get one thing straight - I'm not a traitor. I was never on your side. I'm called the enemy. — Karen Traviss

I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years. — Karen Traviss

Long memory, short fuse, big revenge. — Karen Traviss