Anika

“People are more than their worst act. And they are also more than the worst thing ever done to them.”
― Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice

“It is in this blazing moment that you finally understand the trap of the dark side, the final cruelty of the Sith -
Because now your self is all you will ever have.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

“I think," Obi-Wan said carefully, "that abstractions like peace don't mean much to him. He's loyal to people, not to principles. And he expects loyalty in return. He will stop at nothing to save me, for example, because he thinks I would do the same for him."
Mace and Yoda gazed at him steadily, and Obi-Wan had to lower his head.
"Because," he admitted reluctantly, "he knows I would do the same for him.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

“The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence,”
― H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds