I’ve held it together all this time. I’ve held it together because I had to, carrying the grief and the fear even when I thought the weight would crush me.
I lift my eyes to his. It feels both like it’s hard to meet his gaze and like I could never look away.
Our destiny isn’t some kind of mystical prophecy. Our destiny is what we do with that chance.
How many people die because of Palpatine’s rule every year? Is it deadlier to fight against that kind of tyranny or to let it flourish? When is it time to give up on peace and take up arms?
Crying openly was considered a virtue on Gatalenta – proof of a caring heart.
I’ve been thinking.” She pretended to mull the question over. “What if I decided to go flying around the galaxy with some scoundrel?” Han raised his eyebrows and pointed toward his own chest. Leia laughed. “Unless you had another scoundrel in mind.” “Hey, hey. I’m the only scoundrel up for the job.” He shook his head in – surprise? Disbelief? Leia wasn’t sure. What mattered most was the warmth in his smile. Even if Han wasn’t convinced she intended to do this, he liked the idea. Down.
She looks up into the darkening sky, she knows she’ll never stop hoping. Never stop searching the stars, wondering whether any of them could be the one Abel someday calls home.
It wouldn’t matter if you visited a million worlds. You never know everything about another person – not even someone you love. You can’t, and you wouldn’t want to.” To my surprise, Paul smiles, his expression as warm and adoring as it was that night in Chinatown. “You have to love the mystery. You have to take a chance.
The most beautiful form of mastery is the art of letting go.
I’ve never understood how anybody could be in love with two people at the same time. Your heart can only sing one song at a time.
The words Death Star were harder for him to say now that the death was real.
He still knew how she moved.
Criminals can be as ingenious as the rest of us. More, sometimes.
We learn about people by observing their choices.
He wasn’t wrong to fall for me. Just in the wrong universe.
This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.
Those moments make me feel like I’m melting – like we’re fusing together, ceasing to be two separate people, turning into one.
Had it been like that for her father? She could never know. But for the first time in a very long while, she had some sense of who Anakin Skywalker might have been before his fall, and of the goodness that must have survived in him through all the darkness, all the years.
Oh, no, Nadia. There are plenty of limits, and trust me, the world will smack you down and teach you where they are. But make the world do that. Don’t do it to yourself.
I’ve only ever known one person who could tolerate this who wasn’t a native of Pamarthe.” “Captain Solo?” Joph said, without lifting his face from the table. Leia shook her head. “Chewbacca – a Wookiee friend of ours. Han would never touch this.