Alexander Freed > Quotes

“What do you know? We don't all have the luxury of deciding when and where we want to care about something. Suddenly the Rebellion is real for you? Now that you've got a stake in it, and - and - now that you don't have another life to go back to? Some of us live this Rebellion. I've been in this fight since I was six years old. You're not the only one who lost everything. Some of us just decided to do something about it.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“There is more than one sort of prison, Captain," Chirrut said. "I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“I’m not used to people sticking around when things go bad,” she said, by way of explanation.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“The Force is with me,” he repeated. “And I am with the Force.” Did he believe the words? Did it matter? Had it ever mattered?”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“He hadn't known her, didn't know her, of course. There wasn't the time.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Was this hope? Facing fear after fear, for oneself and for friends and for the galaxy, all out of some desperate need to accomplish the impossible?”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“I don’t need luck,” Chirrut said. “I have you.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Stardust," Jyn said. "It's that one."
"How do you know that?" Curiosity and urgency mixed in his voice, as if he wanted to say: Be sure.
Jyn was sure. "I know because it's me.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“What chance do we have'? The question is 'what choice'.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“She'd done better than most; it would take the Empire a whole battle station to end her.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“The Empire doesn’t care if you surrender. The Empire doesn’t care if you’re hopeless. I’ve given up before, and it doesn’t help. It doesn’t stop.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Rebellions are built on hope.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“She dominated his thinking nonetheless. Cassian believed neither pity nor pragmatism explained it.”
― Alexander Freed

“He saw a figure in white robes near the bridge entrance and turned the tape over in his hand. He approached the woman and said, his tone respectful, "Your Highness. The transmission we received..."
The woman looked toward him. He'd seen her face many times before, knew it well. She was young, seemed younger every day, even as her responsibilities grew and grew.
He held out his hand. Childlike fingers took the tape.
"What is it they've sent us?" he asked.
Prince Leia Organa looked at him as if he'd placed another burden on her shoulders - another responsibility to add to a count of thousands - and she was proud to bear it.
"Hope," she said.
Raymus believed her.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Hope?" She eyed Cassian dubiously. "Is that the best the Rebel Intelligence can do?"
Cassian might as well have shrugged. "Rebellions are built on hope," he said”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Jyn had been at the Empire’s mercy before. Sometimes she’d even deserved her troubles—she couldn’t blame some petty dictator for ordering her dragged off the street and slammed into holding when she really, truly was planning to blow up his ship and steal his guns. She’d had rifles pointed at her, felt stun prods deliver jolts to her spine, and generally suffered the worst a stormtrooper was authorized to deal out. What”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“She looked like she’d stepped out of her own cremation to take vengeance on the world that had done her wrong.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Victory always brings infighting.”
― Alexander Freed, Battlefront: Twilight Company

“The Empire was crumbling every day. Trillions of people were free because of the Rebellion. Because she was a general running a battle group instead of a cell leader flying the Ghost on one mad assignment or another.
Still, she missed her old crew. Her family.
She wished they all could have been with her aboard the Lodestar.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“Jyn shrugged, unable to feign a senator’s diction any longer. “Rebellions are built on hope.” “There”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“The answer," the torture droid said, "is simple: The Emperor who ordered Operation Cinder, who oversaw countless genocides and massacres and created an Empire where torture droids were in common use, was not a man of secret brilliance and foresight.
"He was a cruel man. Petty and spiteful in the most ordinary of ways; and spiteful men do spiteful things. Whatever else he intended, that is the root of it all.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“Her faith carried him with her.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Delay defeat long enough, and a triumph might eventually find its way home.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Fear was like heat applied to steal: Applied correctly it might forge a blade; overused, it turned metal to slag.”
― Alexander Freed, Twilight Company

“He was not the Empire - not every moment of oppression and indignity and torment she had ever suffered. He was an Imperial, a petty, spiteful, scared little man who'd forgotten his own atrocities.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“The rebels had already begun to die. But death was not failure.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Make ten men feel like a hundred.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Justice was the vice of bold, honorable men who died swift, stupid deaths, and vengeance was justice without the sheen of respectability.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron

“You know Jyn Erso?” she began, because if they didn’t the rest of the story would be meaningless. “The woman who started it all and destroyed the Death Star? The first one, the real one, I mean.”

“General Skywalker and Red Squadron destroyed the Death Star,” Nath said.

“Skywalker fired the last shot, was all. Jyn did everything that mattered.”
― Alexander Freed, Alphabet Squadron