I could go to a million universes and never find someone else who could make me feel this way. Only my Paul. Only him.
C-3PO thought they were overdoing protocol? That was a very bad sign.
I loved you enough to give you up.
One of the hard lessons Leia had learned during the Rebellion was this: Any single life was expendable, including her own.
When I was little, my friends would get so excited when I told them that my parents did most of their scientific work at home, and they’d come in for the first time looking around for bubbling beakers or dynamos or whatever devices sci-fi shows had taught them to expect. What it mostly means is papers piled on every flat surface. Sure, lately we’ve had a few gadgets, but only a few. Nobody wants to hear that theoretical physics has less to do with shiny lasery stuff and more to do with numbers.
Everything else I’d ever done, everything I’ve ever been, was erased in an instant.” Leia struggled to find the words. “People who had fought beside me in the war, or served beside me for years in the Senate – they didn’t even see me as myself any longer. All I’ll ever be to them now is Darth Vader’s daughter.
Authority can be given, but leadership must be earned.
Joy drives out fear.
When you think you’ve finally figured things out? That’s usually when your plans go to hell.
Nadia looked... weird. Like chugged-a-Butterfinger-Blizzard-in-ninety-seconds-and-got-on-the-Tilt-A-Whirl weird.
Did you spend the entire Rebellion in the company of smugglers and lowlifes?” He probably meant this to be a cutting remark. Instead Leia found herself thinking of the first time she’d really seen Han’s face – in a garbage compactor aboard the Death Star, moments before he fired his blaster at the magnetically sealed walls and nearly killed them all. Leia couldn’t help smiling. “Almost, Senator Casterfo. In fact, I wound up married to one.” Out.
You paint the truth, Marguerite, I don’t think you could work any other way.
We can do this, she reminds herself, looking over at Abel. It feels natural to use we. They’re in this together now. She remembers how tenderly he cared for her when she was sick and marvels at how strange and yet wonderful it is to trust someone that much.
Science is the study of the entire material universe. Therefore everything is science – whether you see it or not.
The first time I traveled to another dimension, I intend to take a life. Now I’m trying to save one.
As much as each version has in common with all the others, we’re still unique. Every single one of us, everywhere, is irreplaceable.
Although Ciena would have liked to have gone down to Cloud City, perhaps to meet Jude’s parents, she remained aboard the Executor.
The moment when faith becomes more than rules, you’ve been taught,” Noemi says. “When it becomes a living spirit within you, and guides you. When you’re open to God’s love and are finally able to show that love to others. I go to church like everyone else, and I pray and I hope... but I’ve never felt it. Sometimes I think I never will.
But she understood how to interpret shadows.
One of these prophecies says something about ‘She who will be born to darkness will give birth to darkness.