The Terran Alliance Quotes

“Sixty Pathfinder Corps insignia lined the top of his son’s empty casket. It seemed such a small offering, but Henry knew it was the single greatest honor those marines could bestow upon their fallen brother.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“Tess toggled over to the all-platoon channel. “I’m heading in. Give me three seconds of cover, then check your fire. I’d prefer to end today with as many holes in my body as I started with.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“to the holy-shit-somebody-just-divided-by-zero hypervelocity setting”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“Don’t look at me,” Valdez said, and he pointed an accusing finger at Tess. “It’s her boyfriend who’s starting these fights.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“I’m glad to see you well.” Klaythron moved to stand slightly behind Elyria and to her right. The guard’s body language practically screamed, Fuck with her again and I will end you, Terran”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“Weps,” Ramsey called out to his weapons officer, making brief eye contact with the man. “We believe this is the last Imperium ship in Terran or Alarian space, so do be generous. We can always bill the Alarians for our expended ordnance later.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“But Ramsey was and always would be a destroyerman at heart, and destroyer skippers weren’t exactly known for being models of sanity.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“I forcefully deny any and all allegations of misconduct.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“We like to be able to have options for taking your temperature. Hence, the gown,” Dr. Maynard said with a straight face as she reached for a polymer privacy sheet on one wall.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“Should I have them quickly pack their seabags and prepare to embark as well?” he said, using the anachronistic term for the tube-like duffle bags issued to surface sailors, spacers, and marines for centuries.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“No. I lured you here so I could kill you, obviously. Getting to thank you is just a perk.” “Um, so don’t take this the wrong way, but if your purpose was to kill me, you don’t seem to be doing a great job of it.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“How can he be so calm? He was definitely dropped as a child…”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“After reading through the standard-issue lawyerspeak warning about jail time, pain of death, yada yada yada,”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“Shelly peeled the foil top off a creamer packet and dumped its horrid contents into her cup. “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” She tossed the empty packet into a nearby garbage can, then opened and dumped a second creamer into her “coffee.” Then a third. Henry shuddered in horror, hugging his steaming beverage to his chest like he was protecting it. “Don’t worry, precious,” he said to his cup. “I won’t let the bad lady hurt you.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“What if this whole thing was actually Pandora’s box and he was blindly assaulting it with a crowbar?”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance

“You’d think the locals would be able to deal with a disorganized bunch of gangsters on their own, not need a high-speed, low-drag badass SEAR to do it for them.”
― J.R. Robertson, The Terran Alliance