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So this is how liberty dies," she was saying to herself. "With cheering, and applause.

The king of the gods took away this man's family, everyone that he loved - and still this particular man did not surrender.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

Once you sand the corners off consequences, people start to get really fucking weird.

How can he love being ... that? Being what Caine is?"
"Because he's an asshole," she says. "You must have noticed.

Opposites attract, but similarities bind.

Everything I tell you is a lie."

-Vergere

Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it's giving you its life. Every time.

This threshhold is mine ... Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don't give a damn. None shall pass.
-Ganner Rhysode

Which would leave Mace and Agen Kolar- -both among the greatest bladesbeings the Jedi Order has ever produced

... what your life means depends on how you tell the story.

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

Jacen Solo, your sojourn in the lands of the dead is at an end. It is time once again to walk the bright fields of day.

With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.

You assume that I don't know and I do care. The truth is the other way around.

A girl likes to be asked, dumbass.

It may be there's such a thing as a tool than can't be used as a weapon, but I've never met one.

Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.

It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

If you have to justify an action, you probably shouldn't have done it in the first place.

The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over.

Be not afraid, child. Be what you are.

When you eat, eat. When you sleep, sleep. When you fight, fight.

When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.

In every exchange, Obi-Wan gave ground. It was his way.

Everything's forever until it isn't.

Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.
-Vergere

A lie is like a pet- you have to take care of it, or it'll turn on you and bite you in the ass.

I know some gods. Better than I want to. Not one of them gives a shit about your heart

I told you before," he muttered solidly. "You can kill me, but you can't make me obey.

Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

It's desperate in life to be beloved of God."
"Depends on the God."
"Does it?"
"Christ, I hope so."
the horse-witch and Caine

Should's nothing like is.

When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint.

That's what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain

And so, here at the end of days, you are as you've always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit

Can't trust a fascist
truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

Shit, kid, thinking about that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, like I just ate a kitten.

Have you had contact with any other survivors?"
"Only one," the Alderaanian senator said grimly. "Lock onto my coordinates. He's waiting for you.

Scars are the key to power. Scars are the map of beauty ... Each of us is the sum of our scars.

The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt.

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

Not his penetrating intellect, or his talents with the Force, or his unmatched skills with a lightsaber.
-Matthew Stover on Mace Windu

All true stories end in death.

last name's just for people who want you to be impressed by their parents." I

If you take out the team in teamwork, it's just work. Now who wants that?

The author respectfully dedicates this book to everyone who is almost as smart as they think they are.

many truths we regard as immutable are, in fact, surprisingly context dependent.

I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

If i listen hard enough, i can hear that voice: that small quiet whisper in the back of my head that keeps on insisting "My will, or i won't".

Only human, after all.

A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free.
-Vergere

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

Reasons are for peasants.

I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down.
-Ganner Rhysode

Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars.

Names are masks, they get in the way.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.