Skyler Ramirez > Quotes

“I round the corner and enter the door to see Jessica’s exquisite rear end in one of Wanderer’s shipsuits as she’s leaning over, going through the refrigerator’s bottom shelves. Not a bad way to wake up.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe

“my actions had resulted in about five hundred people—five hundred and four, to be exact; all innocent civilians—dead.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Ship in the Fleet

“I somehow have feelings for two women at once,”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe

“If we don’t let him blow something up at least monthly, he’s likely to go stir-crazy.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Detectives in the Federation

“I thought she looked cute in that girl-next-door kind of way. She has an innocent face with a small nose surrounded by freckles under messy blond hair. And she’s so short and petite that no one would ever peg her as a ruthless mercenary leader. But here we are, and now she just looks like a psycho, mostly because that’s exactly what she is.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Rescuers in the Republic

“When you marry someone, you sort of expect that you’re in it with them until the end and that when that end comes, you’ll go out together, preferably holding each other to the last second.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Ship in the Fleet

“OK,” I say, trying extremely hard not to slur my words. “Let’s go figure out what we’re going to do now that we’re dead.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Spies in the Sector

“Which makes me, honestly, feel like a horrible human being.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe

“if I don’t find Harris something constructive to do soon, I’m not going to be able to justify even having him on the ship breathing our air and eating our food. It’s surprising how seldom we find ourselves in need of a good makeup artist.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe

“been an internal debate for me whether or not women understand what they’re doing to men when they tickle or lightly scratch our backs.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe

“turning the events of the evening over and over in my head until I finally slip into a fitful sleep without finding a single answer to why I’m such a monumental moron.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Pirate Hunters in the Fringe

“Mendoza, are you some kind of an idiot?” I look across the wardroom table at my hero, Billy Firebrand, and smile. “Nope. My mom had me tested.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Mercenaries in the Border Systems

“From now on, I promise to wake up every day with my first thought being how I can make you happy, and my last thought at night of how I can be worthy of you.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Mercenaries in the Border Systems

“I was expecting Jessica to be glaring angrily at me and the nearly empty bottle of scotch I just finished downing in a vain attempt to escape the reality of my death.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Spies in the Sector

“it wasn’t money that drove us apart. It had more to do with me becoming a mass murderer.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Spies in the Sector

“and I’m starting to realize that it almost doesn’t matter what happens to us or what we do. What matters, I’m convinced, is who we go through it all with.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Fugitives in the Star Nation

“I’m not even sure I want to stop drinking. Reality is just terrible these days.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Spies in the Sector

“It would be too little too late, but at least it gave them something to do while they waited for death. It was good to have hobbies.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Ship in the Fleet

“What I’m actually thinking is, ‘Stupid Lin and her stupid non-Billy Firebrand practicality’. But even I realize I’m being petulant, so I keep those thoughts to myself.”
― Skyler Ramirez, The Worst Spies in the Sector