Funny / The Hand of Thrawn

• The opening line of chapter 6 of Spectre of the Past:
  She was short, she was furry, she was loud, and she was determined to sell him a melon.
• Shada's dogged pursuit of trying to get information out of Talon Karrde:
  Karrde: He's someone who used to be in the same business I am. Probably still is, actually.
  Shada: But not a competitor?
  Karrde: You were certainly paying attention in there. Incidentally, just out of curiosity, where in the bedroom were you hiding? I didn't notice any place where anyone bigger than a Noghri could have been tucked away.
  Shada: I was on the floor, between the back bed and the wall. A gap like that always looks smaller than it really is. If Car'das wasn't a competitor, what was he?
  Karrde: Persistent, too. I like that in my people.
  Shada: Delighted to hear it. If he wasn't a competitor, what was he?
• The Qom-Qae and Qom-Jha uses the naming scheme "Verber of Noun", and when refering to outsiders, they simply change their names around to fit better. Skywalker obviously becomes "Walker of Sky", but Mara Jade turns out to be "Jaded of Mara".
• Voss Parck explains the battle between Thrawn and Palapatine's agents to Mara Jade (a battle that was later depicted in Outbound Flight):
  Parck: You can't imagine it, Mara. On one side were handpicked units of Palpatine's own private army, equipped with fifteen top-line combat ships. On the other side were Commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo of the Chiss Expansionary Defense and perhaps twelve small and insignificant border patrol ships.
  Mara: I can imagine it just fine. How badly did Thrawn slaughter them?
  Parck: Utterly.

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