Charles Soule > Quotes

“Peace without justice is flawed, hollow at its core. It is the peace provided by tyranny.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“Being a Jedi was not about saving oneself. It was about saving others.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“Why has the Force called us to fight today?” Loden said. “For life and the light,” Bell replied.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“You could drop Tony Stark naked in the middle of the desert and he'd fly out in a jet made of sand and cactus needles. It's not his *stuff* that gives him power. It's his *brain*. Try using yours. You'll be amazed the difference it makes.”
― Charles Soule, Daredevil: Back in Black, Vol. 1: Chinatown

“You could not solve those problems individually. It was ridiculous to even try.
What you could do, however, was make the various people of this high era of the Galactic Republic see one another as people. As brothers and sisters and cousins and friends, or if nothing else, just as colleagues in a shared goal of building a galaxy that welcomed all, heard all, and did its best to avoid hurting anyone. Truly tried its best.

If you could make that happen, then problems didn't have to be solved. Many would solve themselves, because people believed in the Republic more than they believed in their own goals, and would be open to that magical word--compromise.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“When someone was hurting, you did what you could to heal them. When someone was lost, you found them.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“the galaxy didn’t care what you thought couldn’t be broken. It would break things just to show you it could.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“There was nothing so big it could not be swallowed up. Nothing so strong it could not be humbled. Nothing so tall it could not be made small. Not a mountain, and not the Republic.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“No matter what a person was on the outside.
Inside, everyone was made of light.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“Lady, all I know about you is that you're tough as hell. Guys like me, we got a list of people like you. Like a rating system.

You got your Daredevils, your Iron Fists--those guys, you fight. Maybe you get lucky, or maybe you're actually good enough to beat 'em.

Now, any Hulk--lady, dude, red, green, purple--you see a Hulk. you run. As you saw. Thors, too.”
― Charles Soule, She-Hulk #5

“He is a liar, a thief, a killer and a cannibal. And he is running for political office! Someone must stop him.”
― Charles Soule

“Skill is the child of patience.”
― Charles Soule, Star Wars: Obi-Wan & Anakin

“Her lightsaber, ugly as it was, served as a perfect reflection of the great truth of the Force: no matter what a person was on the outside… …inside, everyone was made of light.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“Empires need enemies. They need a justification for all those weapons… for all those soldiers. A reason for their subjects to be afraid, so the people will tolerate a level of control they would never otherwise allow. Palpatine was very good at finding enemies. First, the Separatists during the Clone Wars, then the Jedi during the Purge. I wouldn’t be surprised if he created the Rebel Alliance himself, just to keep the game going.”
― Charles Soule, Star Wars: Hidden Empire

“He closed his eyes and opened his spirit, and there it was, the small light within him that never stopped burning. Always at least a candle flame, and sometimes, if he concentrated, it could surge up into a blaze. A few times, he’d felt as bright as the sun, so much light pouring through him he was afraid he might go blind. Honestly, though, it didn’t matter. From spark to inferno—any connection to the Force chased away the shadows.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“Chancellor Soh’s Republic wasn’t perfect—no government was or ever could be—but it was a system that gave people room to dream. No, even better. It encouraged dreams, big and small. The Republic had its flaws, but really, things could be a hell of a lot worse.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“I am stronger as part of the Jedi Order than I could ever be alone.”
― Charles Soule, Star Wars: Obi-Wan & Anakin

“The Force is a trap. It calls us with dreams of power or skill or just being able to change things. It’s the same, light or dark.
But it chews us up, uses us for its purposes, whatever bizarre cosmic goals it’s trying to achieve and tells us it’s destiny.
We aren’t people to it. We’re just tools. Tools named Jedi and Sith.”
― Charles Soule, Star Wars, Vol. 1: The Destiny Path

“And after all, what's the point of being Daredevil if you can't leap before you look?”
― Charles Soule, Daredevil: Back in Black, Vol. 1: Chinatown

“If I do everything, no one learns anything,”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“A thoughtful question from time to time wasn’t exactly insubordination.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“if she let you live, she would use her apparently endless levels of influence to ruin your life,”
― Charles Soule, The Oracle Year

“He’d read a few—they were all set at outposts on the far Republic frontiers, full of unrequited love and longing glances…the only action was the lightsaber battles that were clearly a substitute for what the characters really wanted to do.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“Peace without justice is flawed, hollow at its core.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“It was like trying to play chess in a pitch-dark room, where you had to determine your opponent’s moves by sense of smell alone. And you had a cold. And your opponent was God.”
― Charles Soule, The Oracle Year

“If the patriarchy didn’t want her talent on her terms, then they would have to get along without it, while she sat in the shadows, making their lives miserable from time to time, getting rich off their mistakes, exploiting flaws in their security, and selling the solutions back to them.”
― Charles Soule, The Oracle Year

“This is Jedi Master Avar Kriss. Help is on the way.” That one thing. Hope.”
― Charles Soule, Light of the Jedi

“Let the past die. Kill it if you have to.”
― Charles Soule, Star Wars: Darth Vader (2017-2018) #25

“Reality was what the brain decided it would be.”
― Charles Soule, Anyone

“This is it, my friends. Now, and always… await the dawn.”
― Charles Soule, Star Wars: Hidden Empire