Quotes from Hard Contact

“We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.”
― Karen Traviss, quote from Hard Contact

“Regular people said they couldn’t tell the difference between one clone and another, did they? That was what came of spending too much time looking at faces and not enough wondering what shaped people and went on inside their heads.”
― Karen Traviss, quote from Hard Contact

“You never have perfect knowledge in combat, gentlemen. It’s what we call the fog of war. You can either sit around worrying what’s real and what’s not, or you can realize the enemy hasn’t got a clue either and fire off a few rounds of psychology. A truly great army is one that only has to rattle its saber to win a war.”
― Karen Traviss, quote from Hard Contact

“I don’t know who the good guys are anymore. But I do know what the enemy is. It’s the compromise of principles. You lose the war when you lose your principles. And the first principle is to look out for your comrades.”
― Karen Traviss, quote from Hard Contact

“They had both been raised in complete isolation from the everyday world, with their own set of values and disciplines, not because they had been chosen to be different but because they had been born that way. Their calling was random, genetic—unfair.”
― Karen Traviss, quote from Hard Contact

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