Kill Team Quotes

“Lifetaker,” comes the reply. All of us spring up from our positions. It’s Masters’s voice on the other end.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“This may sound harsh to someone who’s never been in combat. Someone who looks down from his seat of safety and comfort purchased dearly by the blood of the Legion. Someone who speaks of war as if he knows what the hell he’s talking about. In combat, I am a thinking beast who out-savages the monsters that seek to destroy me.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“portions”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“visual systems light up in a programmed attempt to facilitate non-verbal interaction. Once, long ago, that had all been very important to the people who made bots. Humanizing them. Now no one cares, right?”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“The kid runs off. Cap looks at me and says, “That was our spotter. Cheaper and more discreet than anyone we have on base.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“decide that the prudent course of action is to avoid saying anything over the L-comm that I wouldn’t say to her face. Momma would be proud.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“let the water spray against the side of my face, rinsing off the phosphorescent yellow blood of some koobs that I don’t even remember getting splattered by. All of it mixes at my feet and circles the drain like a whirlpool of sorrow.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“There is nothing so fundamentally wrong as a child with a blaster”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“And the best part is, the whole time everyone’s acting like they’re doing us a favor. “Aren’t you boys proud? You’ll always remember the day you met General I-Got-Here-Because-My-Aunt-Is-On-the-Senate-Council.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“Pthalo is a world of blue oceans, dry brown coasts, and golden sunlight. Massive floating luxury estates migrate from one party to the next. Only the best and brightest maintain a residence on secret, tax-free Pthalo. The House of Reason likes it that way. It’s a reward for those who give so much to the Republic. Arms dealers. Drug dealers. Crooked lawyers. Syndicate financiers. Everybody who pitches in and does all the stuff that needs doing but can’t actually be done—legally speaking, that is.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“You find yourself staring in the mirror,” he began. “And waiting for the contact. Waiting days on end in the heat with the mad and the drunks. Because that’s what all spies do, Tom. Especially the ones who are afraid of losing their way. They talk to themselves in the mirror without ever moving their lips. Because they’re the only person they can talk to who knows the truth. Who knows who they truly are. And because they can’t tell anyone else, and go on living. You’re standing in front of the mirror, Tom, in a cheap hotel on dark, dangerous, and violent Ankalor. Waiting for the contact…”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team

“Because sometimes bad things—downright horrible things in fact—must be done. For the greater good of the Republic. The “greater good” is, after all, what the Republic is founded on. The greater good. All for all. Isn’t that what the elites at the top like to say every time they bother to go through the pomp and circumstance of an election? All for all? As they switch seats and positions just often enough to keep the rubes believing it’s all a democracy? Or a “modified galactic republic”—that’s how they teach it to the younglings.”
― Jason Anspach, Kill Team