Odysseus Ascendant Quotes

“Hope is something you have when nothing else will save you. There may be limited evidence that the desired outcome will happen, but just the chance of said outcome is enough to sustain us. Hope is a lie.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“defend, however, but access to the Forge. It was perhaps ironic, in a way, that the most desperate defense they had yet mounted against the Imperial forces would be in the defense of a world the Imperials had no idea even existed. Tanner laughed bitterly at that. Sometimes, reality had a way of turning out more bizarre than any half-cocked fantasy dreamed up by humanity. Fantasy had a tendency to follow man’s desire for the universe to make sense. Reality had no such compunctions.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Sometimes, reality had a way of turning out more bizarre than any half-cocked fantasy dreamed up by humanity. Fantasy had a tendency to follow man’s desire for the universe to make sense. Reality had no such compunctions”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“He hated it when one of his subordinates had the nerve to be both smug and right.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Around the flight deck, engineers and crewmembers looked assiduously in any other direction than toward the two arguing officers. Most suffered oddly timed choking fits, but of course no one was eavesdropping. That would be rude.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Ma’am?” the chief croaked. “Commodore’s orders, Chief,” Milla said. “I assure you, I am no happier with this than you are.” “Small comfort, ma’am.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Do we have time for that?” Steph asked, mostly because it seemed more polite than asking his friend and CO if he’d lost his Goddamn mind.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Spend our lives properly, Raze, and in exchange we’ll ride with you to hell and back.” Eric smiled wanly. “Not sure we’re coming back.” “Then we’ll take that fucking place over and retire there.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Damn few problems can’t be cured by exhaustion, sleep, or a judicious ass kicking.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Space was a massive, well, space.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“We fight for the man standing beside us,” Eric answered instantly. “The men and women who stand and fall at our side. Home, nations, ideologies—they all come in a distant second, sometimes even farther down the list. In the moment, all those things bleed away, and when the bullets fly, we fight for the women and men who are right there with us, in the mud and in the blood.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“We are human, sometimes we fail,” he said, looking at Odysseus rather than the camera, “but because of the power that has been entrusted to all of us, when we fail . . . the effects are devastating. Do not forget that—never forget that. The power we have is a sword with as many edges as hands to wield it, and when misused, either intentionally or through no fault of our own, it will cut regardless, and people will die. That is the burden of duty. We are not civilians who, for the most part, only hurt themselves and perhaps a handful of others when they fail. If you cannot handle this truth, then let someone else take your”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Creepy was a human condition, and not a bad one in his mind.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“We can’t control how we’re seen, but we can control how we see.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“He paused. “Spend our lives properly, Raze, and in exchange we’ll ride with you to hell and back.” Eric smiled wanly. “Not sure we’re coming back.” “Then we’ll take that fucking place over and retire there.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Sometimes, reality had a way of turning out more bizarre than any half-cocked fantasy dreamed up by humanity. Fantasy had a tendency to follow man’s desire for the universe to make sense. Reality had no such compunctions.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“don’t try to be anyone other than the very best you that can be managed,” Eric said. “We don’t become heroes or legends, Odysseus. We take one step at a time, solve each problem as it arises, and we let the rest handle itself as it will. We can’t control how we’re seen, but we can control how we see.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Don’t let your obsession with perfection become the enemy of being good enough.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant

“Never interrupt the enemy when he’s in the middle of making a mistake.”
― Evan Currie, Odysseus Ascendant