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1 " That was where he was wrong. She wasn't weaponless. No Jedi ever was. "
― E.K. Johnston , Ahsoka (Star Wars)
2 " You have to remember every piece that's been played, even the ones removed from the board, because some of them might count against you in the end. "
3 " When Ahsoka opened her hands, she was not surprised to find that two lightsabers, rough and unfinished, were waiting. They would need more work, but they were hers. When she turned them on, they shone the brightest white. "
4 " There’s two kinds of family,” Miara said after a moment. “There’s the kind like me and Kaeden, where you get born in the right place to the right people and you’re stuck with one another. If you’re lucky, it turns out okay. The other kind of family is the kind you find. "
5 " When he had the dream on Alderaan, he would get Leia out of her bed, hold her close to his chest, and hope against hope that she exhibited only her mother's gifts, not her father's. "
6 " She went through her days trying not to think about her loss, lest her grief incapacitate her, but that just meant that every time it came up, it hurt like new. "
7 " He'd gone to Shmi Skywalker's grave to apologize for losing her son. "
8 " She gave him a smile. It felt absurdly nice to be taken care of. Maybe that was what she needed, even if she didn’t need it very often. "
9 " Why had it been her? She’d had that thought a hundred times since Order 66. Why had she survived? She wasn’t the most powerful; she wasn’t even a Jedi Knight, and yet she was still alive when so many others had died. She asked the question so often because she knew the answer. She just hated facing it, as painful as it was. She’d survived because she had left. She had walked away. She’d walked away from the Jedi and she’d walked away from Thabeska, and because of that she was alive, whether she deserved to be or not. "
10 " If you’re not a Jedi, then what are you, Ahsoka Tano?” Bail asked. “Because to be honest, you still sound and act like a Jedi to me.” “I’ll let you know when I figure it out, "
11 " How many of the younglings had been murdered by a man wearing a face they implicitly trusted? And how did the clones feel after it was done? She knew the Temple had burned; she had received the warning not to return. But she didn’t know where any of her friends had been during the disaster. She knew only that she couldn’t find them afterward, that her sense of them was gone, as if they had ceased to exist. "
12 " Raada was a tedious little place, but it would serve its purpose. The Empire would get what it wanted and then be on its way. The farmers would have their freedom again, for all the good it would do them. They really should have thought of the risks before they became farmers. Jenneth turned a blind eye to his part in their incipient suffering, a privilege that came with never really having suffered. "
13 " One of the problems with spending a lot of time with an astromech droid was that one tended to continue talking to it even when it was no longer there to talk to. "
14 " Kaeden had played, in her estimation, approximately ten billion games of crokin since Ahsoka had rescued her and left Raada. It "
15 " Alone and connected. Aloof and hopelessly entwined. Obi-Wan had only a moment before he was wrenched back into the physical world, but it was long enough to renew his hope."Obi-Wan," said Qui-Gon Jinn. He was sure the voice was stronger this time. "Let go. "
16 " The Clone Wars," she said. "I fought in the Clone Wars. "
17 " A Republic messenger ship had broken through the Separatist blockade. He hoped it would carry the beginnings of their reinforcements, enough to start turning the tide of the battle on the planet's surface. Anakin told his clone commandos to hold their positions and then went off to meet Obi-Wan. He couldn't quite shake the feeling that his life was about to change. "
18 " ... hope against hope that she [Leia] exhibited only her mother's gifts, not her father's. "
19 " Chenna says that well-traveled people always believe more things," Hedala said matter-of-factly. "They have seen more, so they have bigger imaginations. "
20 " Do you think she'll grow up to be a mechanic?" he said, and Ahsoka knew he'd understood everything she hadn't said. "There isn't anyone to teach her," Ahsoka said choosing her words carefully. "
