Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.”-Vergere
No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain
The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.
Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.
Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time.
I believe in justice, as long as I’m holding a knife at the throat of the judge.
…what your life means depends on how you tell the story.
Don’t care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.
And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit
Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever changes back. That you can’t go home again.
I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you’ve grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.
… Corellian curses being a synergistic blend of vulgarity, obscenity, and outright blasphemy that were the only things really worth saying when one was in the middle of being blown to monatomic dust.
That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.
It’s not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.
Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.
A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two.Two is enough.Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right.Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.
When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.