Peter Bostrom > Quotes

“My job as the XO is fire extinguisher. I solve the problems so that the captain doesn’t have to. But, paradoxically, I’m also a fire starter; I’m here to encourage people, get the sparks flying on dry wood, and build up the senior staff so they can do their jobs.”
― Peter Bostrom, The Last War

“That was diplomacy. The art of telling someone to go to hell and having them enjoy the journey.”
― Peter Bostrom, The Last War

“They’re crazy, they’re violent, but maybe what they’re saying is true.”
― Peter Bostrom, The Last Hero

“exhaling and releasing a breath she didn’t know she’d been holding.”
― Peter Bostrom, The Last War

“you’re here to show these damn reds that we’re here in peace, and that even a bitter old dog like you can be brought to heel. That there won’t be any more plausibly denied, state-sponsored insurrections on their worlds. You’re here to say nothing, do nothing, and let me do my fucking job.”
― Peter Bostrom, The Last War

“Now,” said Roadie, taking a deep breath and leaning over his desk, “perhaps you two irradiated, dopey, inbred, defective, bowlegged, ugly, clusterfucked, soup-sandwich, mutated, kitten-shitting, half-baked, slack-jawed, pathetic, muppet-faced worthless hunks of weak-minded, indiscreet, shit-dicked, nut-sucking, dimwitted, completely ass-backward, messed-up, sister-kissing, defective, similac-chugging, piddlyshit, senseless, ass-dragging, malformed, penguin-fucking, subnormal, numbskulled, imbecilic excuses for utterly useless space garbage will be so kind as to explain to me what the fuck got into those tiny hunks of gristle you call brains, or should I just shoot myself in the dick because the pain of hearing you speak will be less painful than trying to magic up the brainpower to comprehend whatever fuck-fuck game you shitbreathers were trying to play with our Chinese friends?”
― Peter Bostrom, The Last War