Troy Denning > Quotes

“Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker”
― Troy Denning, Star by Star

“Han?”
“Yeah, sweetie.”
“How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?”
“I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.”
“I’ll consider that.”
― Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible

“Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend."
Mara: "She's an insect, Ben."
Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard."
Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt Leia is my best friend."
Ben: "Doesn't count. She's family. Saba is a lizard."
Mara: "Okay, maybe my best friend's a lizard.”
― Troy Denning, The Joiner King

“He stands alone in hollow gloom, with the sound of his own breath whispering down unseen passages ahead and behind and to both sides, wondering how he stumbled into this blackest of all labyrinths.
He entered by choice. We all do. Whether we are mapping the heavens or skulking the lanes of the underworld, whether we are hunting the imprisoned fiend or have ourselves become the monster, whether we are searching for what is lost or hiding what must never be found, we all round that first corner by choice - and by then, we are lost.
You too. You must decide what is false and what is true, and what is true for me but not for you. We are wandering the mazes, all of us, and we cannot hope to escape until we learn to tell between what is real and what is real for someone else. There lies the madness, and the truth as well.”
― Troy Denning, Pages of Pain

“The hoverlanes were murder.”
― Troy Denning

“Your brother kills you." Fett hopped tpo his feet as lightly as any unarmoured jedi apprentice, the n added," Some things are worsse thean death. I know that better than anyone, except maybe Sintas-and Han Solo. Send your father my sympathies.”
― Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible

“Saba: "You want this one to guide you?"
Leia: "If you would consider it."
Saba: "This one?"
Leia: "Yes. I want someone who will challenge me in unexpected ways. I want someone who will teach me what I don't know.”
― Troy Denning, The Joiner King

“Han: “Someone ought to make armor out of those bugs.”
Leia: “Han! They’re sentient beings!”
Han: “Fair is fair. If they get to wear it, so should we.”
- Han and Leia Solo”
― Troy Denning, The Swarm War

“Can't a Jedi Knight express himself around here anymore?" -Jacen
"Of course, but half a dozen times should be sufficient." - Luke”
― Troy Denning, The Swarm War

“And so we place the burden of remaining pure on lesser shoulders? … Do you really believe the Jedi should be the tools of such frail [government] institutions?”
- Jacen Solo”
― Troy Denning, The Joiner King

“Vergere taught me to embrace my pain by surrendering to it. I made that pain a part of me--something I would never fight or deny. You have to do the same thing with your fear, Uncle Luke. Then it will have no power over you." - Jacen”
― Troy Denning, The Swarm War

“There you have it. We go in General Celchu’s shuttle.”
“Much as I personally want you to succeed in this, I sort of have to say no. Duty and officer’s oaths and all that. You understand.”
“Oh, that’s right.” Luke turned to Wedge. “Could I trouble you to set your blaster on stun and point it at the other general?”
“No, not really.”
“Please?”
Wedge sighed. “I’m not going to point a blaster at my best friend. Plus, his pilot will be obliged to jump in the way or do something equally noble and foolish. I’m not going to point a blaster at my little girl.”
“Thank you, Daddy.”
― Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible

“What, exactly, are you doing here?"
"We're trying to prevent a war. Isn't that what Jedi are supposed to do?"
―Mara Jade Skywalker and Alema Rar”
― Troy Denning, The Joiner King

“Hello, Ben. I'm your cousin Jacen."
"I know you." You went away when I was two. Did you find it?
"Some of it"
"So you're going back?"
"No. What I haven't found, I doubt I ever will."
―Jacen and Ben”
― Troy Denning, The Joiner King

“Leia: 'Han, what have we done?'
Han: 'The same thing we always have, Princess. What we had to.'
--Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo”
― Troy Denning, Inferno

“It was the perfect set. Theseus gave a great war cry and brought his sword arcing up toward Sheba’s throat - but the monster of the labyrinth lives inside us all. She is the dark, devouring hunger that is never sated, the creeping shadow that ever plays the fiend to our seraphim, the secret rage hidden in our hearts; deny her, and we become her slaves; fight her, and we make her invincible. By now, you must know that no monster can ever be killed, not really - […]”
― Troy Denning, Pages of Pain

“It is not for us to decide the fate of angels.”
― Troy Denning, Halo: Last Light

“The New Republic? Are you blind? There is no New Republic! It died before the Yuuzhan Vong came!"
Leia Organa Solo”
― Troy Denning, Star by Star

“Then who do we answer to? Ourselves?"

"Of course. Who else can we trust to wield our power? We must follow our own consciences."

- Corran and Jacen”
― Troy Denning, The Joiner King

“My parents are terrorist scum, and that is why I have turned my back on them.” The”
― Troy Denning, Tempest

“THERE IS NO EMOTION; THERE IS PEACE. THERE IS NO IGNORANCE; THERE IS KNOWLEDGE. THERE IS NO PASSION; THERE IS SERENITY. THERE IS NO DEATH; THERE IS THE FORCE.”
― Troy Denning, Inferno

“Though Castor found the assurance hard to believe, he was inclined to trust Zoyas's judgment.”
― Troy Denning, Halo: Last Light

“You must confess yourself. It is the way to love the truth. Tell me who sent you, and I will let you sit in the Eel Bath.”
“Let me?” This was less incentive than he thought. “And I will let you lick clean the soles of True Believers in the time beyond the Year of Carnage!”
― Troy Denning, Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad

“I confess that you are a bag of gleet squeezed from the purulent sphincter that is the mouth of Iyachtu Xvim!” He would not listen to the truth; what choice did I have but to return to my earlier strategy? “In the time beyond the Year of Carnage, your god shall empty the chamber pots at the Palace of Eternity, and you shall clean the garderobes!”
― Troy Denning, Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad

“And Jaina hears him whispering to her in her dreams, telling her that no one you love ever really has to die--if you don't want them to...All you have to do is hold a place for them in your heart.”
― Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible

“My mistake was in forgetting that good beings can disagree. They can evaluate all of the evidence and study it from every angle and still reach opposite conclusions. And each side can believe with pure hearts that only their view is right. “When that happens, it’s easy to lose sight of something far more important”
― Troy Denning, The Swarm War

“I didn’t know Spartans came equipped with a sense of humor. Does that cost extra?” “No, sir,” Fred said. “It’s more of an operational bug.”
― Troy Denning, Halo: Last Light

“The 717th was here to nab an ancient Forerunner ancilla, one that could turn out to be the most sophisticated and powerful AI ever captured by the UNSC.”
― Troy Denning, Halo: Last Light

“Then Lopis, on top of him as they slid down a muddy slope headfirst, her cheek pressed to his faceplate, almost like she was kissing him. Probably the best part of the mission.”
― Troy Denning, Halo: Last Light

“Humans were strange that way, believing they could hoard what they loved like gold and keep it safely hidden away in their vaults.”
― Troy Denning, The Summoning