Kathy Tyers > Quotes

“There must be one highest priority in your life for which you'll give everything--your possessions, your rank, your hopes, even your life--or you're not a full person.”
― Kathy Tyers, Firebird

“…I would rather lay down my life for others’ freedom than die quietly in slavery.”
― Kathy Tyers, The Truce at Bakura

“Don’t try to save the whole galaxy yourself. Believe me, it doesn’t work.”
-Luke Skywalker”
― Kathy Tyers, Balance Point

“Maybe I'm starting to think like Han. I don't feel quite right about this situation. I'm more nervous than usual.'

Han eyed Chewie, who whuffled softly. Yeah, maybe she was picking up a sense of self-preservation. Skywalkers seemed to be born without it.”
― Kathy Tyers, The Truce at Bakura

“What? Master Luke downloaded the data files from that probe into your memory banks? Why didn’t you say so, you overstuffed recycle cylinder?”
― Kathy Tyers, The Truce at Bakura: Star Wars Legends

“Luke stared at the meteor, a momentary flare of brilliance...like all life. Nothing really, in the sweep of time. But everything, in the Force.”
― Kathy Tyers, The Truce at Bakura

“Their freedom to make choices means they are free to make wrong ones.”
-Luke Skywalker”
― Kathy Tyers, Balance Point

“I only know that you can’t fight darkness with darkness. So maybe a Jedi shouldn’t fight violence with violence, either. Sometimes, I even think that the more you fight evil, the more you empower it.”
-Jacen Solo”
― Kathy Tyers, Balance Point

“Mara, anything could kill any one of us, today, tomorrow. The Yuuzhan Vong could pull down one of Coruscant’s moons, or we could fall out of a window. Life is risk.”
-Luke Skywalker”
― Kathy Tyers, Balance Point

“He flung self-control to the unseen winds of the Force and reached down deep to fully sense her presence. Layers and layers: the living depth of Endor’s teeming forest, the all-enveloping warmth of a night on sandy Tatooine, and the hypnotic glitter of deep space came to mind.…”
― Kathy Tyers, The Truce at Bakura

“Our Speaker doesn’t exempt His people from pain. He only enables us to bear it and be strengthened.”
― Kathy Tyers, Fusion Fire

“Even if your children ever come home, they really aren’t yours anymore.”
-Leia Organa Solo”
― Kathy Tyers, Balance Point

“Plainly, the strength of a hundred-odd Jedi couldn’t keep the galaxy from falling to this menace. One misstep--at one critical moment, by one pivotal person--could doom everyone they’d sworn to protect. No military force could stop this invasion, because it was a spiritual battle. And if one pivotal person fell to the dark side--or even used the ravishing, terrifying power of light in a wrong way--then this time, everything they knew might slide into stifling darkness.’
-Jacen Solo”
― Kathy Tyers, Balance Point