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41 " Where do we go?” someone shouted. Heads turned. It was the young pilot, Agoyo. “Anywhere,” Poe said. “Everywhere. Every corner of the galaxy where someone is fighting tyranny, where someone is standing up against injustice. "
― Rebecca Roanhorse , Resistance Reborn (Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker #1)
42 " and they wore thick white liner around their green eyes. Monti recognized the makeup as a way to avoid the cams the First Order employed. He noticed a white scarf coiled around their neck, big enough to pull up over mouth and nose, another facial recognition blocker. "
43 " They were an underground organization of engineers, technicians, and scientists bent on stopping the spread of authoritarianism in all its forms via the use of technology. "
44 " It had nothing to do with what he saw of the First Order on Corellia. Here the First Order brought order and jobs and pride in one’s accomplishments. What happened to the Hosnian system felt distant, unreal. "
45 " He blushed when he saw his ex’s name. Monti hadn’t thought about him for ages and preferred not to be reminded. "
46 " The invading First Order had left open the grand doors and a wind straight off the sea swept through the building, slicking the white stone floors and leaving the salt and sea so thick in the air Poe could almost taste it under the acrid burn of smoke. "
47 " he realized that losing the datapad meant he had gained a kind of freedom, they lightened. He might be wanted, hunted for the rest of his life, but he would be reborn, somewhere and someone new. The only problem was, he liked being Monti Calay. "
48 " Then why are you here?” Poe asked, voice calm, curious but not accusing. Teza focused back on Poe, looking mildly surprised. “Because it was wrong,” she said simply. “But I didn’t know it at the time. "
49 " My father was Darth Vader,” Leia said, pitching her voice so that it rang out clearly through the room. “Is there anyone who wants to question my loyalty to the Resistance? "
50 " Poe was a man of action and he had been grounded, made helpless, and he had almost burned it all to the ground because he couldn’t take it. "
51 " We’ve all made choices,” Poe said. “Choices that caused harm, led to destruction, even at times death. We are all responsible for our deeds. The great and the terrible. But if we define ourselves only by what we’ve done, only by our failures, then this Resistance, this spark? It dies here and now. "