K.B. Wagers > Quotes

“The new system of sending down a small group of families was the easiest solution. If they were still alive when the other ships got there, it was assumed safe. If they weren’t, the planet was X-ed from the habitable planet list.”
― K.B. Wagers, Behind the Throne

“Haili! Good morning!” She wrapped her arms around my neck and squeezed. “You look wonderful, so nice to be able to buck trends and just slap clothes together, huh? Let’s take a digital. Smile.” Pressing her cheek to mine, she held up her hand, taking the photo with the tech embedded in the tips of her fingers. “I’ll post it on Hansi.”
― K.B. Wagers, Behind the Throne

“This place smells like sulfur and crime,”
― K.B. Wagers, After the Crown

“Love isn’t about what we deserve,” Mia said, kneeling by my side and putting a hand over my fist. “Your people love you because of who you are. All of it, not just the good.”
― K.B. Wagers, Down Among the Dead

“If you came here for a negotiation, act like it. Otherwise, get the fuck out.”
― K.B. Wagers, There Before the Chaos

“The first step of anything requires little more than a willingness to take it.”
― K.B. Wagers, Out Past the Stars

“We acknowledge that things are unstable right now, but that makes it easier, not harder, to do more than pay lip service to equality.”
― K.B. Wagers, There Before the Chaos

“How do any of us forgive for the horrible things we do to each other? We make the choice. It can’t be coerced or bought. It just happens like the sun rising for one more morning.”
― K.B. Wagers, Down Among the Dead

“It’s like two gangs of schoolyard bullies sizing each other up,” I muttered to Emmory. “Come on. If I let this silence drag on any longer it’s going to get awkward.”
― K.B. Wagers, After the Crown

“There are always choices, Hail. We just like to fool ourselves into thinking there aren’t to justify making the shit ones.”
― K.B. Wagers, Down Among the Dead

“Good or bad is irrelevant. We walk the path laid out for us. Going back is never an option.”
― K.B. Wagers, Beyond the Empire

“Apologize when you’re wrong. Fix your own fuckups. And if you have to go down, do it swinging.”
― K.B. Wagers, Out Past the Stars

“Maybe,” I admitted. “That’s what being a leader really is, though, Captain. Doing what needs to be done, be it messy or unpleasant or difficult. I won’t lie and say my parents didn’t instill some of that in me from the beginning, but the bulk of it I learned from a gunrunner. You do the work. Apologize when you’re wrong. Fix your own fuckups. And if you have to go down, do it swinging.”
― K.B. Wagers, Out Past the Stars