George Mann > Quotes

“Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun!”
― George Mann

“But time is a cruel mistress, and it was not until much years later that she would learn the truth: that there is no such thing as salvation, an escape is only ever an illusion conjured up by the hopeful.”
― George Mann, The Executioner's Heart

“The sun was a watery, baleful eye that glared down at the Thames through a bruised eyelid of rain clouds”
― George Mann, The Affinity Bridge

“We are but motes of dust, drifting in an endless sea; sparks that flare all too briefly. Our light does little to illuminate the fading universe, but it is in our nature to fight, to wrestle back the encroaching dark, to find a way. Thus, we open not our eyes, but our minds, and we are terrified by what it is we see.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“That seed of hope that you cling to, that belief that the Jedi will rise above this, will bring an end to all that I have done… it is a fallacy.”
― George Mann, The Eye of Darkness

“HERE WAS ONCE A TRIBE of nomadic people on the distant, dusty planet of Tatooine who, for many months, had been terrorized by a fearsome dragon.”
― George Mann, Star Wars: Myths & Fables

“For a Jedi, there are far more dangerous things in this galaxy than the dark side.”
― George Mann, Tears of the Nameless

“For a country run by a woman, Britain was still a nation in awe of its men.”
― George Mann, The Affinity Bridge

“All lives are precious. Even those of the incredibly rude.”
― George Mann, Star Wars: Life Day Treasury - Holiday Stories From a Galaxy Far, Far Away

“What is life about, Dr. Watson, if it is not about literature? To my mind, all else is a distraction. I should happily idle away the rest of my days in the company of a good book.”
― George Mann, The Spirit Box

“Whatever it is you’re looking for, it might be right there in front of you, if you could only see it. The Force… you should learn to trust it.”
― George Mann, Star Wars: Life Day Treasury - Holiday Stories From a Galaxy Far, Far Away

“What is memory but the fashioning of a deep and personal fiction? In memory, we shape the world around ourselves, as if to prove our own existence, to demonstrate the mark we have left upon the universe. We become heralds of something better; the guiding light by which we believe all others might navigate. This, then, is the comfort we award ourselves for the act of living, for to comprehend the truth – that the universe is cold and ambivalent at best, and at worst despises our very existence – is to contemplate madness. So it is that we grow to love the lie.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“You, Watson, are a hopeless romantic,” he said. “And I wouldn’t want you any other way.”
― George Mann, Encounters of Sherlock Holmes

“When inquisitors fall, in my experience, they do so very hard indeed.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“The problem with legends was that they were unreliable and full of misinterpretation, exaggeration, or downright fiction.”
― George Mann, Tears of the Nameless

“corybantic”
― George Mann, Associates of Sherlock Holmes

“it’s not the droid we’re expecting, is it?”
― George Mann, Quest for the Hidden City

“We are the shield.”
― George Mann, Quest for the Hidden City

“It is a heavy burden I take on, Madame Secretary, but I shall do it in honor of you.”
― George Mann, Star Wars: Dark Legends

“There were fewer finer things in life, in Newbury's humble opinion, than spending time perusing the shelves of a good bookshop.”
― George Mann, The Executioner's Heart

“I'm an author. You want me to describe how creepy this is Harding, I've got you covered.”
― George Mann, Dragon Age: The Missing #1

“Only by knowing the path to the dark side might one know how best to avoid it.”
― George Mann, Star Wars: Dark Legends

“It’s not a graveyard, Mr Watson, it’s a cemetery.”
― George Mann, Encounters of Sherlock Holmes

“My last mission ended with me drifting for a hundred years in a warp storm.’
‘Well, we all have our moments.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“It is far easier to blindly judge than to open our hearts to others and see their truth.”
― George Mann, Qui-Gon

“Elzar had always felt uncomfortable attending meetings of the Jedi Council, and today was no exception. To him, the conversations that took place in this chamber in the Jedi Temple always felt too formal, too staid, as if everyone was repressing what they truly felt in obedience to some unspoken rule.”
― George Mann, The Eye of Darkness

“Herein, too, lies a despicable certainty: the galaxy is rife with terror. It crowds the shadows, lurks at the threshold, watches from behind every half-closed door. The dark side is ever present, waiting to tempt the unwary, to make monsters of the benign, to twist the bright spark of the imagination toward fear.
Yes, the ways of the dark side are insidious indeed, but they are not unknown—not if you know where to look.
Or should that be . . . where not to look?”
― George Mann, Star Wars: Dark Legends

“Idyth had kept no journals, no record of his missions, for in his modesty he had believed that to measure one’s life in such a way was to place too much emphasis on the individual when, in truth, a Jedi was nothing more than a sum of all that had come before and all that would come after, a vessel for the Force, with which it might seek balance.”
― George Mann, Star Wars: Dark Legends

“She had no idea what came next. And for once, the idea was pleasing.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“To face one’s past is to face one’s future.”
― George Mann, Awakenings