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1 " I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am. "
― Sean Williams , Twinmaker (Twinmaker, #1)
2 " He had returned to the source of the river that ran steadily through the galaxy, invigorating and sweeping up the dead as it passed. "
― Sean Williams , The Force Unleashed (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, #1)
3 " With that, the hologram did dissolve and PROXY returned to his normal appearance and size. "Ugh," the droid said with a shudder. "I hate being him." The apprentice stood, deep in thought and nodded. "I think he does too. "
4 " You will never convince me to betray my master!-Starkiller "
5 " Metaphorically speaking," she said with a smile, "'if' is the smallest word in the Galactic Standard lexicon, yet it stands between us and our greatest dreams. Let it be a bridge, Shigar. It's time you crossed it. I will be waiting for you on the other side. "
― Sean Williams
6 " To the Sith, violence was an art form. To Master Satele, it seemed like life itself. "
― Sean Williams , Fatal Alliance (Star Wars: The Old Republic, #3)
7 " For the first time, Ax saw that there could be strength in serenity, and steel beneath stillness. "
8 " She approached him because my culture eschews the Force. That, after all, was where all this started, with militarized religious cults turning children into monsters. "
9 " Being a Sith was not just about feeling hatred and anger; it was finding a way to focus those feelings toward the attainment of mastery. "
10 " Fairy tale "
11 " There can be no peace because peace is the lie. Strength comes only from conflict, and for there to be conflict there must be an enemy. "
12 " Not everywhere Spiked at the same time, of course; some regions resisted, but the spread of AI was inevitable. It bred and mutated—evolved—until it seemed likely to absorb everything. It was like a virus eating away at its host, killing everything in its search for nutrients. “Like a virus, though, it also outreached itself. No disease survives by killing its host. It had finished work on the Earth and was partway through absorbing Venus when it began to self-destruct. So "
― Sean Williams , Echoes of Earth
13 " some things could never be anticipated, but he could control the way he reacted to them. "
14 " Memory alone had proven elusive under such reduced conditions, defying all attempts to record it indirectly. The only efficient way it could be captured and simulated was secondhand, by interviewing the original at length about his or her past and using physical records to supply the images. Emotions could be attached later, during the fine-tuning phase, to color the recollection correctly, even though the details might still be slightly askew. Preawakening memory in such a mind was, at best, a patchwork quilt pieced together from a million isolated fragments. "
15 " Like Riina, my people have been cast out and ostracized from the place in which we feel we belong. It almost killed us, but as have many others in such situations, we found our own way to survive. "
― Sean Williams , Force Heretic II: Refugee (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #16)
16 " They had to join together. It was that or go crazy. "
― Sean Williams , Force Heretic III: Reunion (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #17)
17 " The galaxy is painted in black and white, he realized, feeling the truth and certainty of it deep in every bone. But from far enough away, it all looks gray. "
18 " I make my own chances- Wedge Antilles "
― Sean Williams , The Force Unleashed II (Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, #2)
19 " All politicians are liars’, he said, ‘to quote Chancellor Janarus - Jet Nebula "
20 " The environment could not be fixed by a mere change of heart. It was by then well known that future centuries would suffer greatly for the incontinence of their ancestors. That humanity would survive was never in doubt, but one would always prefer a palace to a barn. Long-term plans were founded to seek ways to fix the problem, and one of these included looking for alternatives elsewhere. "