Vaughn Heppner > Quotes

“prolonged,”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Institute

“Instead of a Flying Dutchman—the ghost ship of the space lanes—we were the Flying Battlejumper, limping our way through the star systems.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“What I meant to say is that most political theorists wish for a one-world government.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Invasion: California

“Were the Cherokees right, though? Did a man own a conscience, and every time he went against it, did he wear it down a little bit more?”
― Vaughn Heppner, Planet Strike

“She was spread-eagled, her wrists and ankles secured by bands. The spinning disoriented her. Drugs surged through her system. She wore a helmet that sprouted with antennae. Every so often, shocks zapped her skull, making her eyelids flutter. They’re reprogramming me. I know that’s what they’re doing.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“Shur, the Land of: The mountainous country to the east of Elon. Its ruler is Shur. It is also known as the Ten Tribes of Shur.   Silver horn: A horn used to call and direct leviathans.   Singer: A teller of tales.   Skarpaler; Lord Skarpaler: An ancient warrior of the Bloodspillers.   slith:”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Tree Of Life

“Life can have any meaning you desire it to have.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Artifact

“The more we want something, the less likely we’re going to get it easily.” Galyan looked up.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Artifact

“consuming them. “Why is this place so strange?” Meta whispered to Kane via a shortwave”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Destroyer

“As a great philosopher had once said, “People are most concerned about the pebble in their shoe.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“Cain, the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, had also been the first to start his own religion. He came to Jehovah not as Jehovah decreed, with an innocent lamb slain for his sins, but with the fruit of the field. Cain toiled in the ground cursed by Jehovah, and after stabbed by thorns and with blistered hands he brought to Jehovah his best. He had worked his way to Jehovah. He had taken what would forever be known as the ‘way of Cain.’  He tried to purchase Jehovah’s favor through his best effort. For Cain it was with his best fruits and grains, first grown in the ground by hard labor and then harvested by the sweat of his brow. He rejected Jehovah’s revealed way. Sacrificing a lamb, ah, so bloody and crude and barbarous, and showing that man’s sinfulness required something that man himself would never be good enough to pay for—it was an insult to a proud man, and Cain was very proud.”
― Vaughn Heppner, People of the Tower

“We fight under the Star Watch banner together. I want freedom for everyone. What do you want?”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“Barbarians broke the accepted rules. Barbarians spat on the culture. The best way to deal with barbarians was to keep them outside civilization’s borders. Once the barbarians were inside the gates in large numbers, the civilization was likely doomed.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Earth

“It was the short run that counted, many of them strung together until they won.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“So…you’re helping us get better?” Maddox asked. “We are.” “By killing us?” Maddox asked. “By eliminating the befouling genetic elements,” Per Lomax said. “Maybe we don’t want your help.” “That is humanity’s collective stupidity speaking through you. For no other reasons than sloth and foolishness, your race loves to hinder progress. We will no longer allow that.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“said. “You never do,” Keith told her.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Command

“Why give laws to perfectly behaved people?”
― Vaughn Heppner, A.I. Assault

“An old man who plants a tree whose shade he will never use is the primary component of civilization.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Earth

“It reminded me of the story of Achilles,”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“That is a threatening reference.” “You bet it is,” I said.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Planet Strike

“he smashed a lizard’s head clean off the body. Blood jetted from its neck, while the Saurian jerked like a slaughtered chicken and ran against a wall before flopping around on the floor.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Assault Troopers

“rhinoceroses.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Artifact

“The higher one went here, the less funguses and hot bacterium there was.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“The captain gathered his resolve.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Destroyer

“The state did not come first. A man came first. He lived in the state with others, and they agreed to work together. That’s what freedom meant. Once the state forced him to do a thing, it became tyranny.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Alien Honor

“the only thing men learn from history is that no one learns from history?”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Task Force

“One of the representatives wore a long robe and a scarlet headscarf, a sheik-superior from the Wahhabi Caliphate, a Muslim star empire. The second envoy, with a great handlebar mustache, represented the Windsor League, a combination of British, Canadian, Australian and Indian colony worlds. The last was a Spacer, a small woman with dark features and short hair. She symbolized the confederation of traders and industrialists with no fixed abodes other than their starships.”
― Vaughn Heppner, The Lost Starship

“We go armed so we can be free,” Marten said. “We have guns in case thugs in red-armor try to march us to the slime pits. We refuse to live beneath others who would attempt to tell us exactly what we can and cannot do.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Star Fortress

“teeth.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Alien Shores

“to pay the energy costs to fuel these lasers.”
― Vaughn Heppner, Battle Pod