Revenger Quotes
"We were meant to be on our best behaviour. Prim and proper educated young ladies."
"The emotional lability of the young is nothing new to me."
"Their timing wasn’t very good, but they did the best they could."
"We don’t run out the main sails all in one go."
"We’ve all had our first night on a ship and it gets better."
"The past is all we have left. The least we can do is make the most of it."
"If one of us knew which bauble we were headed to and squawked that information to another crew ... or even just blabbed about it without thinking—that could ruin us."
"You think this ships runs on moonbeams and puppies?"
"The more you want that contact, the more you’re likely to imagine it."
"Luck has nothing to do with it. What you have is in your lamps, and there’s no mistaking that."
"Knowledge like that can make or break an expedition."
"We were caught in a solar storm once, ghost-fire lighting the rigging, and half the mute books in this room lit up and started showing pictures and words."
"We can only live on about twenty thousand of them. The rest are cracked wide open—no lungstuff, no water, and too knotty to seal them off and bring in those things even if we had the will."
"Every part of us is the same as the day we set foot on this ship."
"The best for himself. If the rest of ’em do all right out of it, that’s a bonus."
"But I suppose it gives me a reason to keep looking for things, and sometimes what you turn up isn’t the thing you had in mind, but something better."
"No news is good news. But if there’s anything you’re not sure of, I’d sooner know it."
"I don’t want to go back to Mazarile, Captain. Not yet. And I know Adrana’d feel the same."
"There’s much still to be done. But I don’t doubt that the captain’s found his new Bone Readers."
"It’s what I live for, girlie. Everything else—all this chaff about sailing from one bauble to another—that’s the rubbish I put up with!"
"It’s going to be bad, isn’t it? I don’t know. We’ll fight, and we’ll give her something to remember us by."
"No. Mostly I believe what I’m told to believe, and the rest is what I’ve figured out with my own two lamps and the grey between my ears."
"I’ll take care of her, Prozor said, stuffing the bag into an interior pocket. Not that she can’t do it herself."
"I see you thought better of Meveraunce’s potions, Fura. I can’t fault you for that, but be prepared for some odd looks when you leave the dock."
"Take that bag of quoins, hop a ship back to Mazarile—which won’t cost you half of your earnings—and then spend the rest of my life never once looking at the sky."
"I know the girlie, and she’s layin’ it on thick. Space is exactly where she wants to be. You’ve got a lick of sense, you’ll put a lock on her door and chain her to a bed for the next three months."
"Everything’s going to be better now, Fura. Your ordeal’s over. It’s all behind you."
"We weren’t asking for so much, just a little contentment, a good and happy family around us."
"The caller has been leaving a recorded message, with the understanding it would be passed to you."
"I’ve been dwellin’ on you, and all the words we had, and how maybe you had the righteous side of it after all."
"You watch them reports of ships comin’ and goin’."
"It does you no good to dwell on the past, Arafura."
"She was still on Trevenza Reach when she sent this, wasn’t she?"
"If you weren’t here to tell me they really happened, I might start doubting they ever did!"
"If we’re going that far, why don’t we all pretend Adrana never existed in the first place?"
"I suspect this is the first time for both of us."
"It’s just flesh and bone. It’s nothing compared to my sister."
"I don’t care about it. Put it in your shop window, for all I care."
"I met a robot who could get through locks. Why can’t you?"
"She was always cleverer than me. Why did she have to be the one who died?"
"I’m sorry. It’s not welcome news. Do you wish to hear it?"
"There’s everywhere. Fifty million worlds, and all the baubles and all the Empty."
"You don’t know cruelty from kindness, Doctor."
"I don’t think we will meet again, Arafura. Not after what is about to happen."
"You want to protect me, you’ll help me with anything that slows down those constables."
"You’re an unpleasant specimen, Doctor Morcenx."
"I thought I was cold, carrying on like that."
"You understand that, don’t you? I love you too much."
"What are you hoping to achieve by this, Arafura?"
"That’s not an opinion. I just know what I am."
"I bet you could barely tie your laces with those tin fingers."
"I’m sorry, dear, but you can’t just stroll in and decide …"
"No one ever comes to me direct, at the docks, demanding to be employed."
"You don’t need to apologise. I suspect this is the first time for both of us."
"You’re not quite sure that it didn’t happen."
"It’s all right, Father. I’m not going to hurt him."
"Prozor gave a little dry laugh. 'When we parted in Trevenza Reach—before Quindar put me under with that gun of his—I didn’t think you had it in you. You said all the right things, and I think you thought you meant it, but I still reckoned you’d wilt away once you got another taste of Mazarile.'"
"'The skull’s peachy, and there ain’t any other ships within jumpin’ distance.'"
"'We’ve got more than enough of both, and enough hours to get in and out.'"
"'I know him,' I said. 'Know him and trust him.'"
"'You’ve worked it out, wrapped your noggin’ around all the knots of it?'"
"'But I knew Rack, and it was his eyes lookin’ out of that face when she let us see it.'"
"'It’s a ship. Tends to narrow your options for keepin’ coves quiet.'"
"'I didn’t know her. But I knew Rack, and it was his eyes lookin’ out of that face when she let us see it.'"
"We weren’t brave, and we weren’t successful. We needed a crew Bosa wouldn’t think twice about jumping, because you looked like easy pickings. Amateurs, which is what you are."
"I had to do it. I ain’t apologizing, or explaining myself, so don’t get that idea. Bosa hurt you, but she hurt me as well and I wasn’t going to roll the dice on us ever crossing orbits again."
"I’ll spare you the worry of that. They didn’t snap, and we didn’t drop."
"The business with Gathing was behind us, for now. The crew seemed content to accept the idea that he’d been smuggling stuff out of the bauble under their noses."
"We hauled in twenty-one days later, swinging into a circular orbit around the smooth, bone-colored pebble that was our target."
"It’s when the armour starts feeling like a natural part of you, that’s when you need to worry."
"She took her jammed-up corpse and fixed it on that bowsprit spike, and she took the one that was there before and tossed it into the Empty."
"The problem on this ship isn’t Strambli. I’ve sniffed around her and I reckon she knows her trade—and what she doesn’t, I’ll be able to fill in with what I gleaned from Mattice."
"That was when I felt something press against the back of my noggin."
"If it was a crossbow muzzle, it was pressing against the hair on the back of my head, not against any part of the armour."
"No matter what you might think, something like that can have a very persuasive effect."
"I let go of the blade, and allowed the crossbow to slide out of my other hand."
"I heard a hiss, like the seal on a helmet being released."
"All you've done is given Bosa something else for her money."
"This bolt'll go through your mush like it was piston-driven."
"We're near the middle of the ship. Where's the skull?"
"I got a jab of the muzzle against my skull for that bit of back-talk, but I reckoned it was worth it for the cheek."
"Bosa turned you, just as she was turned by another Bosa, and another before that."
"You got it wrong. You’ve had it too easy out here, taking your pick of ships. It’s made you lazy."
"It’s just money. That’s what they want you to think."
"I’m proud of what I am. Proud of being Fura Ness."
"We’re close enough. And that hole in us is lined up pretty good with Bosa’s ship."
"The launch is our priority, and taking the Nightjammer."
"We can’t leave it any longer. It’s Bosa we wanted, not her goons."
"I reckon there was enough alertness going on in his noggin to appreciate that Bosa’s fortunes were about to take a severe dip."