Rachel Bach > Quotes

“Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn

“Nothing pisses me off like having my sacrifices undermined.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“Cotter leaned forward. "Where do you get off being such a bossy bitch?"

I looked him dead in the eyes. "I was born a bossy birch, so you can either roll with it or get rolled over.”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn

“Did I pick safety or ambition? The slow and steady or the gamble? I smiled. Put like that, it wasn’t even a question.”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn

“Now, you might think it’s hard to look intimidating when you’re dressed in a ratty T-shirt, barefoot, and unarmed facing down a man who has a good ten inches on you, but that’s bullshit. Intimidation is all about attitude. All you have to do is let just how much you’d love to kick the other guy’s ass show on your face and even the biggest skullheads will start backing down.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“They weren’t even taking me seriously enough to bother removing my guns, which I took as a personal insult.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“But fair warning, being drunk doesn’t slow down my head shots.”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn

“He was leaning back on his bench, scratching his chin thoughtfully. “Why would Charkov sleep with you?” “Gee, I don’t know,” I said, glowering. “Maybe because he’s got good taste?”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“Memories are unruly things by nature. Some come when called, but most do exactly as they please, vanishing when you need them and popping up when you’d much rather they didn’t.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“​"If I was afraid of dying, I couldn't do half the shit I do." I told him.”
― Rachel Bach, Heaven's Queen

“Otherwise, it would have been much easier to just shoot you and be done with it.” I disagreed. The fact that I was still alive after so many combat tours was a testament to exactly how hard it is to “just shoot me and be done with it.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“I’m not patient on a good day, and I hadn’t had any of those for a while.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“The situation was so ridiculously bad it could have been the punch line of a joke, and if I hadn’t been the one getting punched, I probably would have laughed myself sick.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“I didn’t often get to take the moral high ground. I was a mercenary, a killer for hire, and I made no apologies or excuses for how I lived my life. But while my hands would never be clean, I had honor.”
― Rachel Bach, Heaven's Queen

“Pride, lust, and whiskey are a potent combination.”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn

“You couldn’t trust people who treated life cheaply, she’d said, because they were the ones who’d sell you out for nothing.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“Now, do you want to talk first or eat first?” My questions were burning a hole in my tongue, but I’d been a merc too long to turn down food. “Can’t we do both?”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“That, plus the huge traffic jams I could see on the public skyways even at this distance, told me this was no place for sensible people. Hell, it was probably no place for Terrans.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“But at the bottom of the bridge, the seat at the ship’s nose where the pilot usually sat was gone. In its place was what looked like a nest of bright-colored fabric, and sitting in this nest was a very large bird wearing a headset.”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn

“I knew I’d have to face the music eventually, but for now, I was more than happy to procrastinate.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“Get to the ship!” You’d have thought I was back in the army from how fast I obeyed.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“Before I’d signed on with Caldswell, my life had followed a pattern: obey orders, climb the ladder, keep my eyes on the prize. It was a good gig, dangerous and exciting with glory as my reward. Most of all, though, it was simple. A path of my own choosing where I did what I loved, knew where I fit, and understood where I was going. Now, though, I felt like a dollhouse in a tornado.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“Oh goody, we'd saved Caldswell.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“If it makes you feel better, though, Basil is the first on my list if we’re ever stranded in deep space and forced to eat one another. Aeons are most delicious.”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn

“I won't be a monster for you, Devi.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“I am a huge, huge fan of in-your-face, make-no-apologies female badasses.”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn

“But life wasn’t a gift that was given to you. Survival was a prize we all fought for together, not a guarantee bought at the cost of an innocent life.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“Maps are freely available on the tribe ship grid, Hyrek typed. Though if you wish to think of me as all knowing, I will not disabuse you of the notion. “And so modest,” I added, rolling my eyes.”
― Rachel Bach, Honor's Knight

“The day I accepted the symbiont, I thought the only thing left for me in life was my duty, but I was wrong.” He kissed my cheek. “I found you. You’re the bravest, craziest, most extraordinary thing I’ve ever seen. When I look at you, I forget that my soul is sold already, that I have no right to feel the happiness I feel around you, to love you like I do.”
― Rachel Bach, Fortune's Pawn