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Karen Traviss _ Judge
As she let the mirage of a distant ruined town lull her into a meditative state, she could detect both of them in her mind somehow, and they felt…similar. Both obsessive; both so committed to their mission that anything was permissible in completing it.
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Karen Traviss _ Judge
have to hand it to you, Esganikan. We put our boots on Earth soil less than fifteen minutes ago, and you've already offered to kick off a world war and pissed over all the diplomatic channels. Not bad. Give us another hour, and we can start Armageddon.
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Karen Traviss _ The World Before
What happens to people when they realize they're never going to die? Wow. The whole human existence is predicated on inevitable death.
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Karen Traviss _ Judge
This is how corruption begins. One small concession at a time. One thing you feel you have to do for a good reason.
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Karen Traviss _ City of Pearl
think what you like, hate who you like, because that's between you and God, but you will act as the community requires, or the community will no longer require you.
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Karen Traviss _ Triple Zero
She held her hand out to him. He hesitated for a moment and then reached across the table and took it. "We could be dead tomorrow, both of us," she said. "Or the next day, or next week. That's war." She thought of the other Fi, whose life had ebbed away in her arms. "And I don't want to die without telling you that I missed you every day since you left, and that I love you, and that I don't believe what I was taught about attachment any more than you should believe that you were bred only to die for the Republic." This was breaking all the rules. But the war had broken all the rules of peacekeeping Jedi and a civilized Republic anyway. The Force wouldn't be thrown into turmoil if a mediocre Jedi and a cloned soldier who had no rights broke just one more. "I never stopped thinking about you, either," said Darman. "Not for a moment.
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Karen Traviss _ City of Pearl
Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories.
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Karen Traviss _ Bloodlines
Fett, I have a beautiful daughter...'He shouldn't have said that. Now I'm angry, and I don't often get angry. 'Never use your kids, scumbag. Never.
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Karen Traviss _ Hard Contact
She understood that the Republic faced desperate times. She just wondered how many desperate measures that could justify. Somehow it seemed an affront to the Force to do this to fellow humans, even if they seemed remarkably sanguine about it.
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Karen Traviss _ Triple Zero
Buy'ce gal, buy'ce talVebor'ad ures alitMhi draar baat'i meg'parjii'seKote lo'shebs'ul narit A pint of ale, a pint of bloodBuys men without a nameWe never care who wins the warSo you can keep your fame -Popular drinking chant of Mandalorian mercenaries-approximate translation, edited for strong language
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Karen Traviss _ Hard Contact
Right then Niner didn't care if she had less idea of guerrilla warfare than a mott. She possessed one fundamental element of leadership that you couldn't teach in a lifetime: she cared about those she led. She had earned her rank on the strength of that alone."
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Karen Traviss _ Order 66
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.
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