Off Armageddon Reef Quotes

“It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“I do not tell you that those who turn to betrayal, to theft, to murder and treason, do so only because they are good men who have been led astray. I tell you only that all men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“She’d headed the terraforming teams, and it was her leadership which had carried the task through to success. She and her people, watched over by Kau-yung’s flagship, TFNS Gulliver, had battled the planet into submission while most of the colony fleet had waited, motionless, holding station in the depths of interstellar space, light-years from the nearest star.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“eyelashes, and the dimples of the devastating smile which was going to get him into all sorts of trouble in another few years danced at the corners of his mouth.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“clearly used captured data and documents, and the handful of broken, scarred human prisoners who’d been recovered from them had been “interrogated” with a casual, dispassionate brutality that was horrifying.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“genocidal attack had punched inward past Crestwell to take out three of the Federation’s fourteen major extra-Solar star systems, with one hundred percent civilian casualties. But”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“Of course. And you already know you have hers,” Pei said. And then, whatever his culture might have demanded, he cleared his throat hard, harshly. “And mine,” he said huskily.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“and a cold, ugly wave of fear came with the news. Not panic, perhaps, because every single member of the murdered Federation’s final fleet had known in his heart of hearts that this moment would come.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“Alban looked thoughtful for a moment, her blue eyes intent on something only she could see, then returned her attention to the admiral.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“com screen.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“in some sort of mad spasm of suicidal fury.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“TFNS Swiftsure moved to position herself between the planet whose human colonists had named it Crestwell’s World and the mammoth armada bearing down upon”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“fast courier vessel.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“a detached corner of Fofão’s brain said.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“in a voice flat with the panic-resisting armor of training.”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef

“high-pitched wail of the emergency General Quarters”
― David Weber, Off Armageddon Reef