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21 " She dominated his thinking nonetheless. Cassian believed neither pity nor pragmatism explained it. "
― Alexander Freed
22 " The office on the other end of the comm was squawking at him. Bodhi ignored it."Rogue One," he declared, "pulling away! "
― Alexander Freed , Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Star Wars: Novelizations, #3.5)
23 " What do you know? We don't all have the luxury of deciding when and where we want to care about something. Suddenly the Rebellion is real for you? Now that you've got a stake in it, and - and - now that you don't have another life to go back to? Some of us live this Rebellion. I've been in this fight since I was six years old. You're not the only one who lost everything. Some of us just decided to do something about it. "
24 " Jyn had been at the Empire’s mercy before. Sometimes she’d even deserved her troubles—she couldn’t blame some petty dictator for ordering her dragged off the street and slammed into holding when she really, truly was planning to blow up his ship and steal his guns. She’d had rifles pointed at her, felt stun prods deliver jolts to her spine, and generally suffered the worst a stormtrooper was authorized to deal out. What "
25 " She'd done better than most; it would take the Empire a whole battle station to end her. "
26 " Was this hope? Facing fear after fear, for oneself and for friends and for the galaxy, all out of some desperate need to accomplish the impossible? "
27 " Victory always brings infighting. "
― Alexander Freed , Twilight Company (Star Wars: Battlefront #1)
28 " The answer," the torture droid said, "is simple: The Emperor who ordered Operation Cinder, who oversaw countless genocides and massacres and created an Empire where torture droids were in common use, was not a man of secret brilliance and foresight. "He was a cruel man. Petty and spiteful in the most ordinary of ways; and spiteful men do spiteful things. Whatever else he intended, that is the root of it all. "
― Alexander Freed , Alphabet Squadron (Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron, #1)
29 " The Empire doesn’t care if you surrender. The Empire doesn’t care if you’re hopeless. I’ve given up before, and it doesn’t help. It doesn’t stop. "
30 " Jyn shrugged, unable to feign a senator’s diction any longer. “Rebellions are built on hope.” “There "
31 " Justice was the vice of bold, honorable men who died swift, stupid deaths, and vengeance was justice without the sheen of respectability. "
32 " Out here, when someone above you gives an order, you follow it. When someone tries to teach you something, you pay attention. When someone shoots at you, you shoot back. "
33 " I can dream,” Syndulla said, and her smile was sadder than Quell would’ve expected. "
― Alexander Freed , Shadow Fall (Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron, #2)
34 " she’d learned in the past weeks that death was a broken promise. "
35 " He was not the Empire - not every moment of oppression and indignity and torment she had ever suffered. He was an Imperial, a petty, spiteful, scared little man who'd forgotten his own atrocities. "
36 " Red lights, dead state, we’re gonna win too late… "
37 " thought I told you to stay with the ship,” he growled. “You did,” K-2SO replied. “But I thought it was boring, and you were in trouble. There are a lot of explosions for two people blending in. "
38 " Galen: New research and technological development is out of the question at this juncture. Work up a full proposal for the exhaust port solution and send the plans to Vodran for SSCR. [Document "
39 " You die a legend, your followers are set with an excuse to keep warring for generations. "
40 " My point is, you survived and climbed out of a scum pit most people never escape. That’s all well and good, but you’re so grateful for the scraps you’ve got now that you’ve quit striving for anything better. "