Aaron Allston Quotes

Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to."
"No, this will be Wraith Squadron's mission."
"We don't mind running. Even when we don't have to.

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

Cuteness should be preserved.

You can't look dignified when you're having fun.

Now, you should admit it: you are here engaged in some military action directed against the Yuuzhan Vong, knowing full well that any action you take could embroil the people of this peaceful world in your destructive war."
"Isn't destructive war kind of redundant? Until I see a constructive war, or even a giggly war, I have to think so."
Mudlath & Han

The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface."
"Crash."
"Quite slowly."
Face & Luke

I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?"
"Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us."
Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. "When all else fails, just do that.

That was interesting."
"He deliberately countermanded one of my orders."
"He was furtive."
"Sneaky, even."
"We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet."
Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

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Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn."
"I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now."
Luke & Jaina

Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want."
"We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to."
"Thanks."
Wedge & Tycho

Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.
-General Wedge Antilles

No one pays me to be nice.

Life is like an analogy.

Sithspit! What's that?'
'That's the sun, Wedge. It's after dawn.'
'Well, it offends me. Turn it off.'
'It's a hundred thirty, hundred forty million klicks from here.'
'Go up in your X-wing and shoot it down for me.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

When are they going to stop calling me General?"
"When are they going to stop calling me Princess?"
Han & Leia

This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.

Tomer: "What's this?"
Cabinet: "Wt's ths?"
Wedge: "Cabinet."
Tomer: "I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking."
Cabinet: " ... ts tlkng"
Janson: "Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces."
Tycho: "He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all."
Hobbie: "Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

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Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.

I hope you're rushing to tell me that the chef has acquired Jacen Solo's entrails and is braising them for dinner."
"Not quite, Admiral."
"Life is full of disappointments.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.

That's treason. I like it."

Booster

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

No, they can't. They can't be Luke Skywalker.

And unlike the rest of you, he hasn't yet time to ruin his career or his mind."
"Then he won't do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic."
"Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!"
"I withdraw my objection.

There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil.
Luke Skywalker

Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.

With politics, nothing runs right ... but without politics, nothing runs.
Diss Ti'wyn

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.