Rachel Bach Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.

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#3. 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.

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#4. Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed

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#5. But if you think there's a man anywhere who can make me do anything I don't want to do, you haven't been paying attention.

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#6. 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?

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#7. They weren't even taking me seriously enough to bother removing my guns, which I took as a personal insult.

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#8. But fair warning, being drunk doesn't slow down my head shots.

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#9. Pride, lust, and whiskey are a potent combination.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Did I pick safety or ambition? The slow and steady or the gamble? I smiled. Put like that, it wasn't even a question.

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#12. Nothing pisses me off like having my sacrifices undermined.

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#13. The place had clearly been terraformed within an inch of its life; there was just no other way continents ended up perfectly square.

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#14. The captain's sister-in-law had traded her mechanic's coveralls for a colorful shirt, shorts, and a huge straw hat. She looked like a tourist, and because I'm the helpful sort, I told her so.

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#15. I'm not patient on a good day, and I hadn't had any of those for a while.

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#16. 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.

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#17. If it makes you feel better, though, Basil is the first on my list if we're ever stranded in deep space and forced to eat one another. Aeons are most delicious.

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#18. Right, right, I get it, you're a doctor, not a hacker.

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