Elizabeth Schaefer > Quotes

“Authoritarians do not announce themselves and knock down your door. They are invited in.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“He looked back at Lobot, and pointed at the screen, where Han Solo was once again risking Lando's ship, his precious, beautiful Millennium Falcon, for no reason he could figure.
"If I ever do anything like that...shoot me."
"No problem," Lobot said.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

“him. Rey tried”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, Star Wars: The Force Awakens—Rey's Story

“Officers were just like babies: When they needed something, it was always the most important thing in the world.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

“But that’s the funny thing about hope, Dak’s learned—you only have to get lucky once.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“He doesn’t have to fight anymore. He can let go. Calm sweeps across him. Suddenly the numb isn’t so bad. The panic’s gone. Nothing hurts. It’s all right, he thinks. It’s all right. He’s falling through the tunnel; he’s left his body and the speeder behind. He’s left Luke behind.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“There is no restraint or principle at the center of the New Order. And that is why people admire it. The Empire does all the things that people secretly believe should be done with power.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“the New Order would become newer and newer, constantly revised and updated, containing less and less of substance and more and more of reaction, each new day’s ideology ready to denounce the last day’s thought as regressive backsliding.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“Piett also knew, though, that a man who seized power was a man who knew never to let it go.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“How can you say that?” Maela threw her hands in the air, astounded at her mother’s hypocrisy. “You work for them!” “I do not work for them. I design and manufacture droids. Which is not an easy business to be in after the Clone Wars.” She sighed,”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“Such beings did not die; they shaped the fates of countless many across the stars,”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

“You think you’ll see so much, working for the Empire?” Her mother made a face like she had a bad taste in her mouth. “You don’t want any part of them.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“the measure of a Jedi. Anyone can fight, given a weapon and an enemy. Anyone can use a lightsaber, given due training or even good luck. But to stand and wait—to have so much patience and fortitude—that, Obi-Wan, is a greater achievement than you can know. Few could have accomplished it.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

“Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Rejoice for those who transform into the Force.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

“EYES OF THE EMPIRE Kiersten White”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“Lorem, my young friend,” Azier said in the clipped, polished tones of the Empire, the ones Maela was still trying to master to hide that she came from somewhere else, “the man we report to is serving on the Executor as part of Lord Vader’s Death Squadron. Do you really think fun is a priority for any of them?”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back

“Age, he thought, has its advantages. More and more want the young, but less and less need the old.”
― Elizabeth Schaefer, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View