Princess Leia Quotes

“To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes”
― George Lucas, Star Wars: A New Hope

“Hope is like the sun. If you only believe it when you see it you'll never make it through the night.”
― Leia Organa

“There was little he loved to dwell upon more than the thought of young Skywalker coming into herself, learning the powers that lay deep within her, an perhaps bringing to the galaxy a new age that she could not even hope to imagine.”
― Gary D. Schmidt, Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View

“The earlier we begin, the more influence our lessons will have.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan

“We are not our enemy. We are Alderaan. We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important. Alderaan survives.”
― Mark Waid, Star Wars: Princess Leia

“Bear witness, she thought. That’s all you can do for them now, so do it.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia, Princess of Alderaan

“He was tall, handsome, charismatic, and only thirty-two years old—an age that had once sounded mature to Leia, and now seemed impossibly young.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“It's hardly your fault that Leia did not apply herself more rigorously. I wouldn't worry. I'm struggling to imagine a situation in which fluent shyriiwook would benefit her.”
― Madeleine Roux

“Centerpoint.”
― Leia Organa

“If you want to be a part of a rebellion, you have to learn how to lie.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan

“He was far too cautious a man to become inebriated among potential enemies.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan

“We won’t always be free to travel wherever we will. We won’t always be able to take the time to attend elaborate parties. We won’t always have the chance to dance with the ones we love… So dance now.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan

“Sometimes the fates align us with what we need most.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan

“Other people get to do what they love! Doesn’t a princess get to think of herself?” “Sometimes. Of others? Always.”
― Mark Waid, Star Wars: Princess Leia

“Alderaan has billions of martyrs. Do you really think we need another?”
― Mark Waid, Star Wars: Princess Leia

“She sighed. Conspiracies were harder than they looked.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan

“If there’s one thing this war has taught me… love while you can.”
― Charles Soule, Star Wars, Vol. 2: Operation Starlight

“We look at our challenges—at our lessons—as things we master in order to achieve our goals. But the most important lessons in life sometimes have to do with what happens when we fail. How do we know when to surrender and walk away? How do we judge our own part in our failures? Is it something to learn from, or just bad luck? And how do we pick ourselves up again afterward?”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan

“Isn’t this what I fought for—so they wouldn’t have to be afraid?”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“How I miss that feeling—the sense that justice would always win in the end.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“Working with people to get them to cooperate is what we call politics.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“We belong to another age, she thought with a sigh. But we have to make our way in this one.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“One should never use force when persuasion is adequate.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“So you gave up your dream to do your duty.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“Leia let go of all the frustration she felt at Han’s long absences, all the bickering they’d never grown out of. In the end, she knew, he would always come through.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“Willing. That one word said so much. Leia didn’t doubt Han’s love for her, but she also knew that he would always be a wanderer at heart. He would stay with her on Hosnian Prime for a year or more if she asked, but she would feel as if she’d clipped a bird’s wings.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“If you’re only trying to be the opposite of a thing, you’re still letting that thing define you.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia, Princess of Alderaan

“Our job is to reveal little and promise nothing.”
― Claudia Gray, Bloodline

“Cooperate with us. Do as we say, and you keep your throne. He wouldn’t be having this conversation with her unless he thought she’d inherit that throne soon.”
― Claudia Gray, Leia: Princess of Alderaan