John Jackson Miller > Quotes

“I've lived my life in the structure of the Jedi Order. Yes, it was an organization with a goal- but it was also a family. I said it myself: Anakin was my brother. I had many brothers and sisters. And fathers and mothers. And even a strange little green uncle. I don't have that home now. I don't have that family. Almost every friend I've ever had is dead.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“All life is sacred. Even life that comes in forms that we don't understand." - Obi-Wan Kenobi”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“But seeing and doing nothing isn’t the worst thing,” Hera had said. “The worst thing is to see and not to care.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“Everything casts two shadows.

The suns had determined this at the dawn of creation. Brothers, they were, until the younger sun showed his true face to the tribe. It was a sin. The elder sun attempted to kill his brother, as was only proper.

But he failed.

Burning, bleeding, the younger sun pursued his sibling across the sky. The wily old star fled for the hills and safety, but it was his fate never to rest again. For the younger brother had only exposed his face. The elder had exposed his failure.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we accept that they’re doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don’t recognize. And not all change is for the better.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“Or maybe it’s time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren’t gods — just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I’m sure we can.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“The Jedi had always preached against forming connections, to prevent their acolytes from putting too much value in any one relationship. In so doing, they had unwittingly trained their students to be the perfect fugitives, able to cut and run at any moment. As long as they didn’t stop to care, they could go on indefinitely.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“Hello, Master. I'm running now—but I've had time to reflect on your teachings. You say the living sometimes have to suffer to serve a larger goal. I've seen how you live by that. Well, I have a goal now, too. Justice. For myself, for my friends, for the people sacrificed to the plans of the so-called infallible. And it will definitely involve some suffering. Because, you see, I've had a vision of my own. One day, one of you is going to confess and clear my name. And to make sure, I'm going to hunt down each and every one of you. The one that confesses, lives. I don't care which one of you does it. It doesn't matter where they send you. You have a death mark, same as me. Don't look for me, Lucien. Because I'll find you. And if I do end up collapsing the Jedi Order, just remember one thing. You started it."

-Zayne Carrick, KOTR comics”
― John Jackson Miller

“That’s why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It’s like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It’s got to consume, and consume, and consume.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“In theory, say you did have thousands of people—no, thousands of systems—enraged at a hypothetical Galactic Empire in a faraway galaxy. But they’re all upset over local matters, over particular grievances, and they never get together on anything. So they get no strength in numbers, no strategic advantages from cooperation. They’re easy to divide and conquer. And worst of all, no common spirit ever develops.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“I need you to fly like a Wookiee whose hair is on fire – and who thinks everybody lit the match.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“A life that seems small on the outside can be limitless on the inside.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“Hello, there,” he said, in an accent she couldn’t place.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“When you grow up never being good enough, every day's a compromise between what you want to be -- and what you are.”
― John Jackson Miller, Star Wars Omnibus: Knights of the Old Republic, Volume 3

“Kanan thumped his chest. “I’m a man with a mission.”
“You’re an oaf with a delusion.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“I don’t take orders from you.” Then Skelly looked out the landing bay entrance at Cynda. He winked. “I saved you, sweetheart!” He pushed the button.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon--for both sides."

-Grand Lord Hilts”
― John Jackson Miller, Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - The Collected Stories

“But the Jedi had a saying about fear. It leads, ultimately, to suffering." Hera paused. "Someone has to break the chain.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“Whoever has 2 hands can hold a gaderfii.”
― John Jackson Miller, Kenobi

“Then go faster. But don’t go stupid.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“Travel light, and death will never find you.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“The Jedi Order was more than an unpaid police force, more than just an exercise club that was into metaphysics. It was a way of life, based on the Jedi Code—and a lot of rules for living that weren’t in the Code, that had been tacked on later. One was that Jedi avoided becoming involved in romantic relationships. Once on the run, Kanan Jarrus had found that rule pretty easy to forget about.”
― John Jackson Miller, A New Dawn

“A starship is a weapon, but it’s the crew that makes it deadly.”
― John Jackson Miller, Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - The Collected Stories

“had missions she was charged to perform—but she had taken them on as personal challenges, not out of some loyalty to a higher order. The galaxy didn’t have the right to give her odd jobs. Truly free beings had lives. Slaves had duties.”
― John Jackson Miller, Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories