Star Wars Reference Quotes

“Have you never seen a movie? Read a comic book? That's always how it starts - just a little temptation, just a little taste of evil, and then BAM, your light saber turns red and you're breathing through a big black mask and slicing off your son's hand just to be mean."
They looked at him blankly.”
― Cassandra Clare, The Evil We Love

“In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”
― George Lucas

“Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured.

"Always," Parker said.”
― Greg Cox, The Bestseller Job

“what's really annoying is that you don't read any Chewie fanfic. If you did you'd know that Wookiee was not a language, it was a species. There were at least three Wookiee languages. Rey learned Shriiwook from Wookiees who came to Jakku, but she didn't usually speak it because Wookiees mostly understood Basic."
I was laughing. "And why are you using the past tense?"
"Because all of this happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, Holmesy. You always use the past tense when talking about Star Wars. Duh.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“You could have gone dark side," Tanner said.
"Like full-on Darth Gordo," Chris said.
Gordo put his face in his hands. "I told you guys, I'm a witch. I'm not a Jedi."
"Um, excuse me," Rico said. "Can you or can you not shoot Force lightning from your fingertips."
"It's not Force--"
"We rest our case," Tanner said quite loudly.”
― T.J. Klune, Wolfsong

“Have you noticed that if you switch the first letters of every country singer's first and last name, you end up with an amazing Star Wars name?”
― Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

“A vessel swift of flight," though say'st? Hast thou
Not heard of the Millenn'um Falcon, Sir?

'Tis but the ship that hath the Kessel run
Accomplish'd in twelve parsecs,”
― Ian Doescher

“do or do not, there is no try. - Yoda”
― George Lucas

“Sometimes, just for fun, I type some random, silly word in front of the word porn and google it. Just to see if it exists. Because that means people out there are getting off on it. So I googled Nazi porn. Yupp. It exists. Then I googled goldfish porn. Yupp. Found it. Someone out there finds sex with goldfish arousing. Fart porn. Yes, that's a thing too, and it brings someone somewhere great pleasure. Stormtrooper porn. Yes, the force is strong with that one. And it's not even a Saturday Night Live parody. It's literally hardcore porn, featuring men dressed in Stormtrooper outfits. With surprisingly high production values.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Why Creeps Don't Know They're Creeps - What Game of Thrones can teach us about relationships and Hollywood scandals

“Looking off to the horizon, properly and heroically squinting, Onni added, 'Get your washtub ready, brother. It will be a bloody business when the gnome empire strikes back.'

'Whoa,' Offi said, with feeling. 'You totally just gave me chills.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, No Country for Old Gnomes

“Hey, I don’t make the rules, I just work here. You have a complaint, take it up with the Emperor.”
― Michael Reaves, Star Wars: Death Star

“Everybody, ultimately, is trying to reach a harmony with the other part of the life force. And in trying to figure out what life is all about, we ultimately come down to expressions of compassion and love, helping the rest of the life force, caring about others without any conditions or expectations, without expecting to get anything in return. This is expressed in every religion, by every prophet.” - George Lucas”
― Paul Duncan, Das Star Wars Archiv. 1977–1983

“If I want to dress up like Princess Leia and lightsaber fight the clone army in my living room, well the Han Solo in my life is just going to have to accept it.”
― Michelle M. Pillow

“The only scenes I can stand in any of the Star Wars films are the quiet scenes in the second one, The Empire Strikes Back. Or rather, it used to be the second one, before the fourth one became the first one, thus making the second one the third one.”
― Nick Hornby

“Oh, good. Okay, I'd like to get more sleep before I have to figure out how we find a Sith Lord in Washington.”
― Gini Koch, Alien in the House

“At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.”
― Denis Markell, Click Here to Start

“She was spontaneously created by the midichlorians,' I said. Both women gave me blank looks. 'Never mind.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London

“He puts his hands out. "I don't like this plan at all. It didn't work in A New Hope."
I tie his wrists together, making sure the rope is tight enough to look convincing but loose enough that he can slip out. "They rescued Princess Leia!"
"Obi-Wan Kenobi died, though, even if it was on purpose. And I'm not really sure who's who in this scenario. I'm obviously a Han Solo type. You're maybe a Luke Skywalker. Good hair. Better at fighting than you have any right to be. A bit on the whiny side."
"Just for that, I'm declaring you the C-3PO of this mission."
"Hey now! That's not fair."
"Whatever you say, 3PO.”
― Kiersten White, Chosen

“You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?”

“Well, yes. If you can quote poetry, I can reference Star Wars.”
― Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here

“Become the Jedi against assholes, you shall!”
― Grace Gotesky, How to Professionally Deal with Assholes

“Yoda was wrong. It’s credits that bind the galaxy together.”
― Paul Ens, Star Wars: Evasive Action - Recruitment