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Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13) QUOTES

Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13) QUOTES

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

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

2 " Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.

Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god—he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin’s death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you—and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more.

At the same time.

What it is depends on who you are.

But who am I? he wonders. I’ve been running like Dad—like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong?

There’s only one way to find out. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

3 " Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

4 " What distinguishes a flower from a weed is only—and exactly—this: the choice of the gardener "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

5 " Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."


-Vergere "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

6 " Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

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

-Vergere "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

8 " 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 "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

9 " Everything I tell you is a lie."

-Vergere "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

10 " I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down."

-Ganner Rhysode "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

11 " Oh, sure. What's this supposed to teach me?"
"Is it what the teacher teaches? Or what the students learns?"
"What's the difference?"
"That is, itself, a question worth considering, yes?"

-Jacen & Vergere "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

12 " 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. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

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

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

14 " It has to do with a bizarre concept called democracy, in which ruling power is given to whoever is most skillful at directing the herd instincts of the largest masses of their most ignorant citizens— "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

15 " Sometimes pain is the only bridge to where you want to go. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

16 " For the Jedi, combat is failure. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

17 " When you fight fanatics, all you do is make them even more fanatic than they were when they started. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

18 " If your surrender leads to slaughter, that is not because the Force has darkness in it. It is because you do. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)

19 " Ganner Rhysode builds a fortress of the dead. "

― Matthew Woodring Stover , Traitor (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #13)