He was leaning back on his bench, scratching his chin…

“I’m not patient on a good day, and I hadn’t had any of those for a while.”

— Rachel Bach

“Maps are freely available on the tribe ship grid, Hyrek typed. Though if you wish to think of me as all knowing, I will…

— Rachel Bach

“Did I pick safety or ambition? The slow and steady or the gamble? I smiled. Put like that, it wasn’t even a question.”

— Rachel Bach

“The captain’s sister-in-law had traded her mechanic’s coveralls for a colorful shirt, shorts, and a huge straw hat. She looked like a tourist, and…

— Rachel Bach

“Before I’d signed on with Caldswell, my life had followed a pattern: obey orders, climb the ladder, keep my eyes on the prize. It…

— Rachel Bach

“They weren’t even taking me seriously enough to bother removing my guns, which I took as a personal insult.”

— Rachel Bach

“I knew I’d have to face the music eventually, but for now, I was more than happy to procrastinate.”

— Rachel Bach

“The truth is that there are no heroes. We're all villains excusing our actions by hiding behind a greater good.”

— Rachel Bach

“That, plus the huge traffic jams I could see on the public skyways even at this distance, told me this was no place for…

— Rachel Bach

“The situation was so ridiculously bad it could have been the punch line of a joke, and if I hadn’t been the one getting…

— Rachel Bach

“I was born a bossy bitch, so you can either roll with it or get rolled over.”

— Rachel Bach

“I won't be a monster for you, Devi.”

— Rachel Bach

“Nothing pisses me off like having my sacrifices undermined.”

— Rachel Bach

“Now, do you want to talk first or eat first?” My questions were burning a hole in my tongue, but I’d been a merc…

— Rachel Bach

“Otherwise, it would have been much easier to just shoot you and be done with it.” I disagreed. The fact that I was still…

— Rachel Bach