Michael A. Stackpole > Quotes

“Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Star Wars: I, Jedi

“I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you"
- Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying."
- Mara Jade Skywalker”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“If you can't recognize the man in the mirror, it is time to step back and see when you stopped being yourself.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Star Wars: I, Jedi

“If the wind no longer calls to you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Star Wars: I, Jedi

“Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs."
-Jaina Solo”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide II: Ruin

“Let's get started. Who's first?"
"His name is Kettch, and he's an Ewok."
Wedge came upright. "No."
"Oh, yes. Determined to fight. You should hear him say, 'Yub, yub.' He makes it a battle cry."
"Wes, assuming he could be educated up to Alliance fighter-pilot standards, an Ewok couldn't even reach an X-wing's controls."
"He wears arm and leg extensions, prosthetics built for him by a sympathetic medical droid. And he's anxious to go, Commander."
"Please tell me you're kidding."
"Of course I'm kidding."
(...) "I'm going to get you, Janson."
"Yub, yub, Commander.”
― Michael Stackpole

“As Han once told me, "Stealth and subtlety work well, but for making lasting impressions, a blaster does just fine.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Rogue Squadron

“Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze."
-Anakin Solo”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“Note to the wise: whenever someone insists that he wants to buy something from you, but tells you there’s no real value in it yet, two things are happening: he’s lying, and you’re being taken.”
― Michael A. Stackpole

“Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Star Wars: I, Jedi

“Do you want help?"
"No."
"Do you need help?”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Star Wars: I, Jedi

“Easy isn't for Jedi. Of course, trying to find your own path is much more difficult. Maybe what you have to do is walk a bit on the other paths and see how you can waeve bits and pieces of them together."
- Anakin Solo”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“Corran: "I thought Commander Antilles was in that TIE. I mean it had to be someone as good as him to get you three"
Nawara: "Apparently he is that good"
Rhysati: "He flew circles around me"
Ooryl: "At least you saw him. He caught Ooryl as Ooryl fixed on his wingman. Ooryl is free hydrogen in simspace. That man is very good."
Corran: "Sure, but who is he?"
Rhysati: "What difference does it make who he is?"
Corran: "Rhys, he shot up three of our best pilots, had me dead in space, and he says he's a bit RUSTY!”
― Michael Stackpole

“Your intentions will be good. Without consideration and forethought, however, your actions could still be evil. That is the problem, of course, evil is always easy and resisting it is never so. Evil is relentless; and anyone, if they tire, if they are not vigilant, can fall prey to it.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Star Wars: I, Jedi

“Out of character to be so obvious. You need to be more subtle. Locate a partially blocked artery in his brain, then just pinch it off. Bang, he's down and it's over."
- Mara Jade Skywalker”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“The distinction between protectors and warriors is critical to avoid the seduction of the Dark Side."
-Luke Skywalker”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide II: Ruin

“Luke, I'm a fighter. I've always been a fighter. The few times when I have been at leisure, I've been miserable. I want challenges, I crave them. As nice an peaceful as it was up north here, it lulled me, dulled me, took the edge off. Anakin made it so I had no needs, and Dantooine -- before the Yuuzhan Vong -- had nothing more dangerous than big thorns to worry about. I was wasting away, trying to conserve my strengh, all the while turning away from the means I'd used in the past to tap the Force."
- Mara Jade Skywalker”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“I am Kai Allard-Liao. I am a killer of men.” He opened the Hatchetman’s arms wide. “This pass is mine to ward. I offer those who wish to challenge me a warrior’s death, but I beg an indulgence of those who would accept my offer. Your smaller companions have forced me to exhaust my autocannon ammunition and they destroyed one of my lasers.” He brought the ‘Mech’s hands together to grip the hatchet’s haft. “I have only this club with which to defend myself. I will kill you all, alone or in groups.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Lethal Heritage: Book One of Blood of Kerensky

“Because finding the differences upon which we can hang hatred is much easier than discovering the common ground that can unite.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, World of Warcraft: Vol'jin: Shadows of the Horde

“Pacifism for the sake of pacifism is the height of arrogant selfishness when that belief prevents you from acting to save others from harm.”
― Michael A. Stackpole

“If the quest was supposed to be easy, they would not have given it to someone who is supposed to be a hero.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, A Hero Born

“Being Jedi is what we are. It's not the power we weild or the weapons we carry."
-Luke Skywalker”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide II: Ruin

“I placed quite a burden on Anakin, didn't I, by giving him that name." –Leia Organa Solo
"He is strong enough to carry that burden, Leia...He's young, yet he has courage and intelligence." –Elegos A'Kla”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“Time to remind them that trapping a Rogue doesn't make him dead, just deadlier.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Rogue Squadron

“Reason why scars form is to show that man can survive his own stupidity" Anastasius Focht talking to Phelan Kell on the Dire Wolf”
― Michael A. Stackpole

“Can I truly discover how to integrate myself in the Force if I do not know who I am without it?"
- Jacen Solo”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“I know. Off to save the galaxy again, that's my Leia."
- Han Solo”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

“...Those who can't be loyal never believe when others are”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Vol'jin: Shadows of the Horde

“You can't hear a whisper if you're constantly shouting.”
― Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught