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Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3) QUOTES

Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3) QUOTES

1 " Leadership can mean defiance. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

2 " A HUG IS LIKE VIOLENCE MADE OF LOVE. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

3 " You’re a raptor who sees all his people as defenseless little flit-wrens—and you’ll save them, if only they give up the fanciful notion that they can lead themselves, that they can protect themselves.”
“You understand nothing.”
“Meanwhile,” Sinjir says, really leaning into it now, “your opponent is a woman who wants to give democracy to the entirety of the galaxy. Freedom for all. Oppression for none.”
“It’s naïve.”
“It may be. But at this point, I’m going to side with her precious naïveté over your authoritarian bluster. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

4 " Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire,” Solo says before adding quietly, “Usually an electrical fire near the hyperspace drive, which Chewie always warns me about… "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

5 " She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

6 " Not it. Her. Give the Falcon some respect, kid. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

7 " Chewbacca’s back home, looking for his family. Luke’s searching the galaxy for old Jedi teachings. Han Solo’s got nothing to smuggle, nowhere to gamble, no foolish Rebellion to fight for. He’s like the Falcon: retired to a hangar somewhere, waiting for something, anything, to happen. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

8 " The Force, the Force, the Force! Everything the Force. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

9 " Rebellions work. We’ve seen it. We’ve helped make it happen. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

10 " I smuggle, not snuggle. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

11 " With the blood of a scoundrel and a princess in his veins, his defiance will shake the stars. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

12 " Buying gifts for a kid. Can we get him a cute little cape and a mustache so he looks like old Uncle Lando?” Lobot "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

13 " He is less a human-shaped thing and more a pulsing, living band of light. Light that sometimes dims, that sometimes is thrust through with a vein of darkness. She tells herself that it’s normal—Luke said to her, Leia, we all have that. He explained that the brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Right "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

14 " Princess Leia’s baby, he knows, will have a good life. The best life. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

15 " My name’s Mapo,” the boy says. “Mesa Jar Jar. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

16 " That what guided me was the Force.” “You’re lying. The Force is only for the Jedi.” “No!” Jumon says, not angry so much as he is incredulous. “They wield it, but the Force is in all living things. It is what gives us our intuition, our drive, it’s what connects us to one another. We are all one with the Force. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

17 " When they say to one another, 'May the Force be with you,' it is precisely this that they mean: It is a wish that when the time comes to leap into the void and to make a decision based on instinct and trust, you are rewarded for that act and not punished. The hope is that if you meet the galaxy halfway, it meets you in the middle and carries you the rest of the distance. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

18 " The New Republic is not a military entity. It is one of democracy. And it is painfully naïve to think that democracy can work on a galactic scale. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

19 " He watches a vid of Brin reading from the Journal of the Whills: “The truth in our soul, Is that nothing is true. The question of life Is what then do we do? The burden is ours To penance, we hew. The Force binds us all From a certain point of view.” Addar fails to understand what it means, but he admits: He enjoys listening to Brin. "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)

20 " Coruscant is in chaos, and Mas Amedda is trapped. He "

― Chuck Wendig , Empire's End (Star Wars: Aftermath, #3)