“With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.”

“She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.”

“That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock”

“you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible.”

“Never underestimate a droid,”

“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)”

“Chewie, we’re home,”

“When people don’t have access to facts, they invent what they’d like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.”

“Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. So everyone had argued and debated and discussed. Until it was too late.”

“She finally managed to free her fingers from his. “I know how to run without you holding my hand!”

“If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.”

“…those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.”

“That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.”

“Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees”

“Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”

“The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.”

“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”

“Vainglory and curiosity are the twin scourges of our souls. The former makes us stick our noses into everything: the latter forbids us to leave anything unresolved or undecided.”

“I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.”

“To philosophize is to learn to die”

“It is as though our very touch bore infection: things which in themselves are good and beautiful are corrupted by our handling of them.”