“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.”

“Formal profile or not, of one thing he was now certain: They had badly underestimated what had seemed to be a Resistance pilot on the verge of physical and emotional collapse.”

“Two surviving human beings on the entire planet, Ruslan thought, and they can’t stand each other. A fitting metaphor for the entire species.”

“Niima was a functioning armpit of a town and nothing more, a place where no one asked questions and everyone went quietly about their own business.”

“Nobody came to Jakku.”

“The trouble with computers, she thought, was that they had no intuitive senses. Only deductive ones. You had to ask the right question.”

“I know what I have to do, but I don’t know if I have the strength to do it.” Ren moved out onto the walkway toward Han. “Will you help me?” “Yes,” Han told him. “Anything.”

“His only fear then was that the man might shoot first and ask questions later. Thankfully, he did not.”

“That weapon—is mine.” Finn all but snarled his reply. “Come and get it.”

“He was training a new generation of Jedi. There was no one else left to do it, so he took the burden on himself. Everything was going good, until one boy, an apprentice, turned against him and destroyed it all. Everything Luke had worked toward: gone. Luke felt responsible. He walked away from everything.”

“But patience had to be learned alone.”

“It is you,” Ren murmured.”

“If she let go or otherwise lost her grip, of course, it would solve all her problems. Permanently.”

“Typical Ren, Hux thought. Self-centered, arrogant, indifferent to the interests of others.”

“You will leave Starkiller at once and come to me with Kylo Ren. Leave immediately.” He added grimly, “It appears that he may have been right about the girl.”

“Maybe one day, before the universe died, Unkar Plutt would take a bath.”

“Women always figure out the truth.”

“Women always figure out the truth.”

“easier question to answer. “Who wouldn’t be? This is New Riviera, the paradise planet, the best of Mother Earth concentrated and then spread like a fine glaze on an entire world instead of just a small part of it.”