“She had seen this man before, in a daydream. In a nightmare.”

“I got a bad feeling about this.” —”

“It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.”

“Crazy thing is, it’s all real. The Jedi, the Force—it’s true. All true.”

“For an ordinary man, yes" she had replied. "But we're not trying to find an ordinary man. We're looking for Luke Skywalker”

“Unlike in simulations, reality bled”

“The expression on her face was one the trooper would never forget: it was the look of someone still alive who realizes she's already dead”

“Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.”

“Get away from her, you!”

“And since he’s written 126 novels and counting, I think that we can safely say Mr. Foster is one hell of an entertainer.”

“Plutt wants droid. We take droid. Female don’t interfere.”

“Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust.”

“I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me. Especially when it’s filled with noises like that distress call.”

“Time passes. Horror does not. *”

“The Millennium Falcon.” She could not keep the wonder out of her voice. “This is the ship that made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs.” “Twelve parsecs.”

“Light enters through the window and opacity is vanished!” exclaimed the alien.”

“Not the Force, but a more ancient, more highly developed sense in man half convinced him they were being watched.”

“meal was sensitized: any nonprogrammed disruption”

“For an ordinary trooper like him, ignorance was not simply an abstract value. It was in the manual.”

“With regret, he realized that despite his intensive studies there was still much about this world and its dominant Larian society that he did not know. And of course he had not been able to bring with him anything of an advanced nature, like a vorec, which would have allowed him to look up the answers to such questions.”

“In loquaciousness lay insanity.”

“In his mildly stoned stupor he forgot that hubris is more deadly than any weapon.”

“Probably, an increasingly desperate Bala-Tik thought as he let off yet another ineffectual blast, Solo had done it by talking all of them into a state of complete insensibility.”

“Eying him, Finn felt he knew the type if not the man. His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.”

“I never answer that question until after I’ve done it.”

“You may not believe it, but there are some people out there who don’t like me.” “Hard to imagine,” she murmured.”

“he had never killed anyone before. He still felt the same. The pistol had done the killing, not him. The man had set if off himself, as a consequence of his own idiotic actions.”

“The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots.”

“A few, less constrained by pride and more resilient, survived and had children. Their offspring grew up with no illusions about the supremacy of humankind or anykind. They matured and observed the world around them through different eyes. Roll the log. Give and take. Bend with the wind. Adapt, adapt, adapt …!”

“Poe readied himself. "The Resistance will not be intimidated by you."

“was certain: His former colleagues would not understand, no matter how hard he tried to explain. No one fled the First Order and lived. The sand sucked at his feet as he stumbled toward the rising smoke. “Poe! Say something if you can hear me! Poe!” He did not expect a response, but he hoped for one. Flame had joined smoke”

“Despite lack of any training with a lightsaber, Finn was athletic and courageous. In tandem with such traits, the saber made him a formidable fighter.”

“Despite the difference in size between the girl and her assailants, it was looking as if she was not in need of any outside assistance.”

“To date, however, the boy had proved himself relentlessly ordinary.”

“One did not have to be trained as a pilot to infer that a dead console did not bode well for future voyaging.”

“Facts can be most persuasive.”

“She stood and extended a hand. He glanced at it, his dark gaze rising to her face, then gratefully accepted her offer of assistance. “Follow me,” Rey said. She turned and broke into a run, the grateful Finn allowing himself to be guided.”

“There’s a Blarina merchant there named Ohn Gos who is afflicted with the sorry habit of listening sympathetically.”

“You know, Burke, I don’t know which species is worse. You don’t see them killing each other for a percentage.”

“Man and thranx had been so close for so long that they were no longer thought of as aliens. More like short people in shiny suits.”

“was at once appalled and impressed. Personally, he could not recall having read or heard of an instance where a human economist had resolved a disagreement with a fellow academician by ripping out the other's tendons and ligaments.”

“Unlike in simulations, reality bled.”

“remove a trigger from a gun and while the trigger itself would look decidedly unimportant, its absence would render the gun useless.”

“As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there’s nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality. Once”

“The Hermit of the Commonwealth. That had a solid ring to it. Stoic and aesthetic. There was only one problem with the noble life he had set out for himself. It was a terrible way to meet girls. Whoever”

“As all foot soldiers have known for thousands of years, there’s nothing noble about dying. Only an irritating finality.”

“Expanding outward from the explosion, a tremendous burst of heat tore through the Hosnian system’s other worlds, searing their surfaces clean of life”

“If you know less than everything, you always feel inadequate.”

“This time she was sure she managed a grin. ‘I can’t figure you, Hicks. Soldiers aren’t supposed to be optimists.’ ‘Yeah, I know. You’re not the first to point it out. I’m a freakin’ anomaly.”

“I’ve lived for over one thousand years, son. Long enough to see the same eyes in different people.”