Jason Anspach > Quotes

“prove that you were capable, seek opportunity, and endeavor to build for what comes next.”
― Jason Anspach, Wayward Galaxy 5

“How do you tell an angel she’s wrong for calling you a monster?”
― Jason Anspach, Wayward Galaxy 5

“All I can do is stare blankly at the captain. I finally blink. Reincarnation must be real, because no one could get that stupid in one lifetime. “Captain”
― Jason Anspach, Legionnaire

“Reincarnation must be real, because no one could get that stupid in one lifetime.”
― Jason Anspach, Legionnaire

“Failure is a result. Quitting is a choice.”
― Jason Anspach, Gods & Legionnaires

“A Sicilian mobster working the gun with an indig goblin as his assistant gunner.”
― Jason Anspach, Violence of Action

“then… it’s something I should brief everyone on.”
― Jason Anspach, Lead the Way

“I mean snorted MacAfee as he went on. It's not a lie, I am not calling Tyrus rex a liar I would never do that. I would never call that man anything derogatory, if only because he can kill you like 6000 different ways if he wanted to man, imagine that, it makes you wonder you know, like how many ways have he forgotten to kill people think about...”
― Jason Anspach, The Hundred

“Cryo-suspension has been the single most important element in keeping our conflict going for so long. We cross oceans of space asleep, only to bring our hatred from the past forward into a future waiting for us when we wake.”
― Jason Anspach, Wayward Galaxy 3

“Pthalo is a world of blue oceans, dry brown coasts, and golden sunlight. Massive floating luxury estates migrate from one party to the next. Only the best and brightest maintain a residence on secret, tax-free Pthalo. The House of Reason likes it that way. It’s a reward for those who give so much to the Republic. Arms dealers. Drug dealers. Crooked lawyers. Syndicate financiers. Everybody who pitches in and does all the stuff that needs doing but can’t actually be done—legally speaking, that is.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“That was the other side of being a soldier, no matter whether you served the Repub or the Empire. People were going to get killed once the shooting started.”
― Jason Anspach, Prisoners of Darkness

“Sar’nt Joe used to put it, “Everyone’s got a plan until the plan’s actually in effect. Then it’s a new plan. Adapt and overcome.”
― Jason Anspach, The Bold

“Rangers love war like some men love bad women.”
― Jason Anspach, The Bold

“This may sound harsh to someone who’s never been in combat. Someone who looks down from his seat of safety and comfort purchased dearly by the blood of the Legion. Someone who speaks of war as if he knows what the hell he’s talking about. In combat, I am a thinking beast who out-savages the monsters that seek to destroy me.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“The Umanar system was aflame from the massive blue giant at its center. Even from this distance Andien could see the apocalyptic majesty of the hot star igniting the massive super-planet closest to it, creating a slow, eons-long burn that left a flaming vapor trail across the system.”
― Jason Anspach, Sword of the Legion

“Running into a room with nothing but a weapon and the training you had and the attitude that you were gonna be the winner today. Because that’s what a fight is. Winners and the dead. There are no participation awards. There are just winners. And the dead.”
― Jason Anspach, Forgotten Ruin

“people”
― Jason Anspach, Gods & Legionnaires

“Writing things down… it banishes all the lies of time and recall, and even contrived deceptions.”
― Jason Anspach, Never Shall I Fail

“The galaxy is a dumpster fire. That’s not the way the Senate and House of Reason want you to hear it. They want me—or one of my brothers—to remove my helmet and stand in front of a holocam, all smiles. They want you to see me without my N-4 rifle (I’m never without my N-4) holding a unit of water while a bunch of raggedy kids from Morobii or Grevulo, you can pick whatever ass-backward planet garners the most sympathy this week, dance around me smiling right back. They want me to give a thumbs-up and say, “At the edge of the galaxy, the Republic is making a difference!” But the galaxy is a dumpster fire. A hot, stinking dumpster fire. And most days I don’t know if the legionnaires are putting out the flames, or fanning them into an inferno. I won’t clint you. I stopped caring about anything but the men by my side, the men of Victory Company, a long time ago. And if you don’t know how liberating it feels to no longer give a damn, I highly recommend you find out.”
― Jason Anspach, Legionnaire

“sort of idea that he would usually be advised against pursing by those with a better sense of consequences than he himself.”
― Jason Anspach, KTF Part 2

“If I had been those orcs I would have turned and run from that towering horned murder machine working the axe like a weaving scythe of death. But, to their credit, our enemy was in it to win it that night. So they got close with high hopes, sharp things, and clearly bad intentions. And died anyway.”
― Jason Anspach, Never Shall I Fail

“There are no contingencies for a fool in your own ranks, he thought.”
― Jason Anspach, Attack of Shadows

“they were looking forward to another celebration of nothing.”
― Jason Anspach, Attack of Shadows

“Wealthy is the man who spends his time around people with rough hands and smooth character. Pops was always good about dropping some dime of wisdom on us about that. Turn the wrench, add another part to the Shelby, and install some knowledge into me. Man, I can almost smell the grease and metal of our garage and all them tools. I used to level my Pops’s line on my guys when I first became a team leader. I’d tell them rough hands were busy hands and less likely to get in trouble. And smooth character? You know what’s up. You’ve been reading smooth this whole time.”
― Jason Anspach, Underspire: A Forgotten Ruin War Journal

“Moving into a T-intersection really required a fire team to negotiate things safely. Ya feel me? The guy controlling the team’s movement got them to the split in the hall, assessed the danger of moving into the space, and then coordinated the forward movement. But don’t forget about that rear-facing dude so you don’t get smoked in the pooper. The basics of it are pretty simple. Two guys on opposite ends of the hall approach, then pie the corner to take control of the immediate risk of stepping out. If there’s someone there, you assess, address, and advance. Spread the lead until you own the space. Ya know? Once you’re clear, the third and fourth man move to the opposing wall and each take a direction. The first and second then swing in the hall. Got it all wrapped up? Good. The crew then moves back into a rolling “T” which is three front and one facing rear—and the whole hallway advance starts all over again.”
― Jason Anspach, Underspire: A Forgotten Ruin War Journal

“Not believing she’d been pulled out of the best intel section in Nether Ops to suddenly find herself in the sideshow circus of horrors that was the Carnivale.”
― Jason Anspach, Sword of the Legion

“The bot lumbered into the darkness of the right-hand corridor, dragging the screaming and kicking girl like some immense boogeyman, the nightmare of all fragile and good things.”
― Jason Anspach, Galactic Outlaws

“It was never about freedom or democracy or smiting evil like they said it would be and was for. No, it was always about the bottom line for them and the dark forces they served. The money.”
― Jason Anspach, The Damned

“It was never about freedom or democracy or smiting evil like they said it would be and was for. No, it was always about the bottom line for them and the dark forces they served.”
― Jason Anspach, The Damned

“Most of the galaxy found the wobanki cats to be enigmatic to the point of bizarre.”
― Jason Anspach, Galaxy's Edge: The First Trilogy