45 quotes
At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.
We always volunteer, sir. All of us. It's who we are.
Shatterpoint (2004)
"All true stories end in death."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
If no mistake you have made, yet losing you are... a different game you should play.
Shatterpoint (2004)
The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Fairy tales--simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.
Heroes Die (1998)
"Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
The first thing they did was pick up survivors. Because we are equipment, too. As long as the Republic takes care of us, we'll take care of it.
Shatterpoint (2004)
And in the name of this gospel of freedom, she had imprisoned herself; in the name of "living life honestly," she would go to her death. It was, he supposed, the only way she could make herself feel special.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
It's customary, at times like this, to say a few words. A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered. I do not pride myself on my eloquence, and so I will keep this simple.
Heroes Die (1998)
It is the pride of discovering that one is not merely a bundle of reflexes and conditioned responses; that instead one is a thinking being, who can choose the right over the easy, and justice over safety.
Shatterpoint (2004)
His destiny had betrayed him, had made him a destroyer on a scale that humbled even Caine. Destiny, he understood with bitter certainty, could not be trusted.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
The man did not move because only immobility could hurt more than motion: the man held himself still because to move might lessen his suffering, and that he could not bear. For him only pain had meaning.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Here was the weapon of a hero. A real hero. Not a playactor. Not a pretend-hero, like Ganner had always been. But this weapon was now in Ganner's hand.
Traitor (2002)
He did understand. Finally, fatally, he did. He had thought he was the master of history, that his fractal world-tree had grown according to his will. He had allowed himself to be deceived.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
"But... but... you can't fight the way things are..."
"But we do. Every day. That's what Jedi are."
"You can never win-"
"We don't have to win. We only have to fight."
Shatterpoint (2004)
Mace stared at the man as though he'd never seen him before. And he hadn't: only now, finally, was he seeing him. An undistinguished little man: soft face and uncertain voice, shaky hands and allergies: an undistinguished little man who must have had resources of toughness that Mace could barely imagine.
Shatterpoint (2004)
The feeling he'd had, that he was about to get himself killed, swelled into an overwhelming premonition of doom. Ganner's knees went weak, and a very large part of him wanted to bolt down the corridor and get away-but though he hadn't been much of a hero, the one virtue he'd never had to fake was courage.
Traitor (2002)