Out of the Black Quotes

“To his mind, if you were going to kill a man you should have the guts and honor to at least accept a degree of risk yourself, no matter how small. Pushing a button and killing people by remote was no way to do things. It made soldiers lazy and careless. The world had politicians for that already. It didn’t need to add soldiers to the list.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“The Block were not his enemy any more than the terror groups had been, however. They were just opponents in someone’s obscene game of chess. It was stupid for a knight to hate a pawn just because it flew a different flag.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“Eric stood alone, perched above the battleground as he looked out at the city beyond and tried to remember a time when he wasn’t fighting. He knew that there had been such times. In fact, he knew intellectually that he had spent more time at peace in his life than he had at war. Why then, can I only remember the war?”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“It had started with a fight that led to a breakup with her boyfriend, and now the whole damned solar system had apparently decided it was time to pay a visit to the Big Apple.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“It is always easier to curse in another language than your own!”
― Evan c. currie, Out of the Black

“Of course, the goal wasn’t to win. The goal was to make the enemy quote Pyrrhus when it was all over.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“Just try not to crash this one into a planet, would you? The paint is new, Captain.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“De oppresso liber!”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“wouldn’t do to miss and take out one of their own ships in the process. That wouldn’t just be disastrous . . . it would be humiliating too. The flight commander of Bravo Squadron chuckled to himself as he finished the calculations. Death and destruction are part of the business. Embarrassment, however? That’s just not acceptable.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“Hey,” he said, straightening his battle dress. “What’s going on?” “Oh, Captain!” She jumped. “I didn’t hear you come in.” “I walk quietly,” he said.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“though she noted that the smile didn’t really reach his eyes.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“I’m saying that you need to talk to someone, Eric,” Blake said softly, awkwardly. Eric snorted. Neither of them had ever been any good at the touchy-feely bullshit, and it always showed.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“Captain,” she growled, “you are the biggest pain in the ass I’ve ever worked with, and I’m a former Marine who joined the damned NYPD.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“But he had checked three rooms before he thought to turn the dial down on the GWIZ, and Eric thanked whatever gods looked out for fools and Marines that he hadn’t fired a shot off in close quarters at the previous setting.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“Last time I was there I swear I almost got mugged three times before I got out.” “Any of the muggers carry a tactical nuke?” “Not that I saw, but I wouldn’t have put it past some of them.” Tate snorted,”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“Lyssa was spitting out dirt as she picked herself up off the ground, looking over her shoulder with wide eyes and a horror-filled expression. She didn’t know what had just happened, but a mushroom cloud was pretty much a universal sign of an atrocity.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“Oh, relax, Sarge.” Burke grinned, glancing over his shoulder. “These things are built like tanks, didn’t you know?”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“Don’t know. I thought it was a linear power setting,” he said, “but after that I’m pretty sure it’s logarithmic.”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“reason”
― Evan Currie, Out of the Black

“There’s a marina. We’ll steal a boat.” “Commandeer.” “Excuse me?” “I’m a police officer, I don’t steal boats,” she told him simply. “I commandeer them.” Eric”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“Oh my lord, I hurt,” he mumbled, licking his lips and spitting out a piece of his helmet face shield. Shatterproof my ass. Slowly”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“Sometimes it was the journey that counted and every one of them had signed on for an odyssey.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“This was a fight the likes of which only existed in fiction, a war that was black and white and had no vagueness in where the line was drawn.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“That was fine with Bermont. As a Canadian he’d always had the sneaking suspicion that Americans were crazy in more than just the good ways, and Texans were all that and a side of loco in his experience.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“He was a goddamn ranger. He dealt with scum and villains of all stripes, from the lowest street filth to the most dangerous psychos in a state where insanity was considered part of the way of life.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“Fighter pilots. What idiot idea possessed me to put fighter pilots at the controls of starships?”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“We’re going to scrape her hull clear of those pests,”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“That level of irony was such that it should not exist in a sane universe, but then he had never once believed the universe to be sane.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“That was how things worked in an asteroid field, she supposed. Lots of nothing punctuated by moments of almost nothing.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black

“The things fought and ate, and when they ate enough, they produced more of them to fight and eat.”
― Evan C. Currie, Out of the Black