Orders of Battle Quotes

“This is more like it,” Elin says. “What’s that?” I ask. “Decent weather. Clear line of sight. A bunch of subjects to observe in the wild. And only a medium-high risk of violent death.” “Living the dream,” I say.”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle

“We can roll over and give up, I think. Or we can keep forging on and see what happens. And maybe it turns out that we were wrong about the odds after all.”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle

“Lock ’em in a room with two anvils, and in ten minutes they’ll have lost one and broken the other,” he says.”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle

“In another life, back before I learned to put the satisfaction of my ego further down in the stack of my priorities, I would have enjoyed taking up the gauntlet. Now it’s just a minor irritant, not important enough to justify the expense of energy or brain bandwidth.”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle

“Whoever she was in life is gone now, the molecules that made up her body dispersed in the atmosphere and returned to the cosmos, to be reused in the constant cycle of life.”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle

“Over the years, I have found that my brain works best when I give my body a mindless physical task that can be accomplished entirely on autopilot, in an environment where I don’t have to pay much attention to my surroundings or get bombarded by external stimuli.”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle

“Could be they have no choice”, I say. “But to be frank with you, I don´t care why they do what they do”
“If you want to really beat an enemy, you have to care. You have to know what drives them. What makes them tick. Their greatest desires, their biggest fears. So you can kick them where it hurts the most. Kick them until they are down, and then keep kicking. Until the threat is gone for good.”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle

“I am no longer a small unit leader. I am someone who takes orders from the command level and withholds information from his subordinates when it’s necessary for the mission. The thought makes me feel unclean somehow.”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle

“the eternal sensor feeds”
― Marko Kloos, Orders of Battle