Sean Williams > Quotes

“With that, the hologram did dissolve and PROXY returned to his normal appearance and size.
"Ugh," the droid said with a shudder. "I hate being him."
The apprentice stood, deep in thought and nodded. "I think he does too.”
― Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

“You will never convince me to betray my master!-Starkiller”
― Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

“Metaphorically speaking," she said with a smile, "'if' is the smallest word in the Galactic Standard lexicon, yet it stands between us and our greatest dreams. Let it be a bridge, Shigar. It's time you crossed it. I will be waiting for you on the other side.”
― Sean Williams

“I have everything under control. It's time you realized it and let me be who I am.”
― Sean Williams, Twinmaker

“For the first time, Ax saw that there could be strength in serenity, and steel beneath stillness.”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“Being a Sith was not just about feeling hatred and anger; it was finding a way to focus those feelings toward the attainment of mastery.”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“Fairy tale”
― Sean Williams

“He had returned to the source of the river that ran steadily through the galaxy, invigorating and sweeping up the dead as it passed.”
― Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed

“She approached him because my culture eschews the Force. That, after all, was where all this started, with militarized religious cults turning children into monsters.”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“Light, dark,” Shaak Ti had said. “They are just directions. Do not be fooled that you stand on anything other than your own two feet.”
― Sean Williams, The Force Unleashed II

“I assume you know me from somewhere,” he said. “Did I ruin your sister’s reputation? If so, I’m afraid she was quite forgettable.”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“The universe dances to unimaginably complex rhythms at the scales of the very small and the very large. We are sandwiched between them, bacteria caught in two glass slides, and we are foolish to forget the eye peering down the microscope at us. (pg 146)”
― Sean Williams

“Worry all you want," said Master Satele. "Unless there's something you can do about it, I don't see what good it will do.”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“What’s the emergency?” Jacen turned to see Danni silhouetted in the doorway. “We’re out of blue milk,”
― Sean Williams, Reunion (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #17)

“I make my own chances- Wedge Antilles”
― Sean Williams, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

“some things could never be anticipated, but he could control the way he reacted to them.”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“No lesson is truly learned until it is purchased with pain.”
― Sean Williams, Remnant (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #15)

“stimcaf”
― Sean Williams, Remnant (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #15)

“All politicians are liars’, he said, ‘to quote Chancellor Janarus - Jet Nebula”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“Buried in the Air under a mountain of irrelevant information, as all important things are. Nothing is hidden, and everything is ignored. The surveillance state doesn’t need violence to perpetrate injustice. All it needs is our indifference.”
― Sean Williams, Twinmaker

“however, he seethed. Master Nikil Nobil’s decision had cut no less deeply for being delivered by hologram from the other side of the galaxy. “The High Council finds Shigar Konshi unready for Jedi trials.” The decision had shocked him, but Shigar knew better than to speak.”
― Sean Williams, The Force Unleashed

“The environment could not be fixed by a mere change of heart. It was by then well known that future centuries would suffer greatly for the incontinence of their ancestors. That humanity would survive was never in doubt, but one would always prefer a palace to a barn. Long-term plans were founded to seek ways to fix the problem, and one of these included looking for alternatives elsewhere.”
― Sean Williams, Echoes of Earth

“I just have to have faith in the Balance. If a wrong is done to me now, then some good will come of it another day. That’s some comfort, at least.”
― Sean Williams, Refugee (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #16)

“There can be no peace because peace is the lie. Strength comes only from conflict, and for there to be conflict there must be an enemy.”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“Memory alone had proven elusive under such reduced conditions, defying all attempts to record it indirectly. The only efficient way it could be captured and simulated was secondhand, by interviewing the original at length about his or her past and using physical records to supply the images. Emotions could be attached later, during the fine-tuning phase, to color the recollection correctly, even though the details might still be slightly askew. Preawakening memory in such a mind was, at best, a patchwork quilt pieced together from a million isolated fragments.”
― Sean Williams, Echoes of Earth

“Like Riina, my people have been cast out and ostracized from the place in which we feel we belong. It almost killed us, but as have many others in such situations, we found our own way to survive.”
― Sean Williams, Force Heretic II: Refugee

“To the Sith, violence was an art form. To Master Satele, it seemed like life itself.”
― Sean Williams, Fatal Alliance

“The galaxy is painted in black and white, he realized, feeling the truth and certainty of it deep in every bone. But from far enough away, it all looks gray.”
― Sean Williams

“So this is it?” Danni said, her eyes bright, her curly blond hair standing in a nimbus around her head.”
― Sean Williams, Remnant (Star Wars: The New Jedi Order, #15)

“Humanity had to evolve, jump up the ladder until it was on a more equal footing with some of the new minds in the system. This was hard, too. We were behind to start with, and slower to let go of traditional structures than machine intelligences with little or no past. Some of our allies among the AIs despaired of us ever catching up, even with their help. It”
― Sean Williams, Echoes of Earth