Maybe Ciena was right. Maybe the Force was bringing them together, over and over. If so, Thane decided, the Force had a sick sense of humor.
A tyrant can make anything seem to be ’the will of the people.
I meant that you shouldn’t feel ashamed of not knowing a subject. We can’t begin to learn until we admit how much we don’t know.
Everything he’s done, everything he gave up and risked for me: Paul did all that without the slightest idea of being loved in return.
Nobody learns anything new without failing the first few times they try. You have to face that and figure out how to get back up again. That means learning how to fail is the most important lesson of all.
Mathematics or Fate: Whatever that force is that keeps bringing us together in world after world, it’s powerful. Undeniable. But I still don’t know whether that force means my salvation or my destruction.
My parents would call it genetics. To me it seems like alchemy – the luminous space between science and magic.
When I traveled, and got lost within the other Paul Markovs – I always sensed the differences. The ways they thought and spoke and dreamed that I never would, or could.
I’d rather burn in a better kind of flame.
Also, somehow, there doesn’t seem to be any old-fashioned gender roles in place, or any gender roles at all. The priest who condemned me to the mob was a woman. I’ll cheer for equality later.
There was a limit to the amount of stupidity Leia could tolerate in one day, and she’d just hit it.
We have to bleed out before our hearts can start beating again.
Maybe a soul can be broken, just like a destiny.
All those times you watched me kill Jabba the Hutt, and you never learned from his example. It doesn’t pay to jerk me around.
But this role doesn’t need an adventurer as much as it needs someone who can... look at each world with fresh eyes. Who can perceive things deeply. Not an adventurer – an artist. You were the one we needed all along.
Because of you, I’ve had adventures on every world of the loop. I’ve made my first real friends. I broke free from Mansfield, and I found out what it would mean to love someone. Because of you, I’ve been truly alive. And now that I’ve lived, I can be ready to die for something I believe in and the person I love.
The sun is setting on the New Republic,” Leia said. “It’s time for the Resistance to rise.
My growth is stunted already. If I’m stuck being short, I may as well have the caf.
He deserves better than this. But “deserves” doesn’t have a lot to do with falling in love.
The way I see it, men and women oughtn’t to get married just because. You should marry when you’re really truly in love, forever. When you’ve found the one girl you’d most want in the whole world. If you haven’t got that, then best not to marry at all, I think.