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“Yoda closed his eyes and reached out with the Force, letting his awareness brush the clones’ presence. Their minds were open and their emotions were strong. In the Force, they reminded Yoda of children. That made him smile… And their rate of growth had been drastically accelerated… If the clones felt like children in the Force, perhaps that was because in some ways they still were.” (Pp. 17-18)

“Jedi weren’t supposed to feel powerful emotions like vengeance or love or hate. Ordo could now see that conflict on the boy’s face daily. And Jusik was a boy: Ordo was the same physical age as the general—twenty-two—but he felt a generation older… And the Jedi drew strength from the things that tore up his heart… He and Jusik were opposites in so many ways and yet so similar in others.” (Pg. 36)

“So Kal Skirata—mercenary, assassin, and failed father—spent a stormy evening on Kamino sharing uj cake with six dangerously clever small boys… teaching them that they came from a warrior tradition, and that they had a language and a culture, and much to be proud of. And he explained that there was no Mandalorian word for ‘hero.’ It was only not being one that had its own word: Hut’uun.” (Pg. 15)

“So how do we justify what we are doing now? Breeding men without choice, and without freedom, to fight and die for us? When do the means cease to justify the end? Where is our society heading? Where are our ideals, and what are we without them? If we give in to expedience in this way, where do we draw the line between ourselves and those we find unacceptably evil? I have no answer, Masters. Do you?” (Pg. 217)

“‘All beings are individuals, and their essence in the Force reflects that. The act of living makes us different...’

The answer stunned Niner. He was used to being a product...This was the first time a Jedi, a commander, had confirmed the clone commandos’ intensely private suspicion that they were no less than normal men. It was no longer a secret dissent that had to be hidden.” (Pg. 191)

“Death was happening all too easily and frequently, as if it didn’t matter and had no consequences. She could feel the Force being distorted around her; not the regular rhythm of life as it was meant to be, but the chaos of destruction. She felt she could neither accept it nor influence it.” (Pg. 178)

“There is something very touching about them. They look like... fight... and sometimes... even talk like soldiers. They have all the finest qualities of the fighting man. But behind that is nothing—no love, no family, no happy memory that comes from having truly lived. When I see one of these men killed, I weep more for him than for any ordinary soldier who has lived a full and normal life.” (Pg. 121)

“Regular people said they couldn’t tell the difference between one clone and another, did they? That was what came of spending too much time looking at faces and not enough wondering what shaped people and went on inside their heads.” (Pg. 92)

“Clone personnel have free will, even if they do follow orders. If they couldn’t think for themselves, we’d be better off with droids... They have to be able to respond to situations we can’t imagine. Will that change them in ways we can’t predict? Perhaps. But they have to be mentally equipped to win wars.”
(Pg. 23)

“‘There’s two kind of family... The kind... where you get born into the right place to the right people and you’re stuck with one another... The other... is the kind you find.’
Ahsoka thought about how the clones, even ones who had never met, defaulted to calling each other ‘brother.’ She had thought it was because of their genetics & military connection, but maybe it was something else.” (Pg. 70)

“The familiar presence of Anakin was gone, like a disrupted conduit that no longer channeled power the way it was meant to. Ahsoka couldn’t feel him anymore, or any of the others. Even the sense of the Jedi as a whole was gone, and she’d been able to feel that since she was too small to articulate what it was she felt... She missed it like she would have missed a limb” (P. 27)

I’m just not getting into this one right now, and there are too many other books waiting. I’ll pick it back up later.

“These crystals were taken from Christophsis, to power two of the most insidious weapons built. The legacy of Galen Erso. The legacy of Orson Krennic. Of Tarkin and the Sith. Of Palpatine and Vader. The Death Stars are gone. Light has persevered through the necessity of dark. These crystals must go home.” (Interlude/Ch. 17)

‘Intelligence will hold the New Republic together, or the New Republic won’t hold at all. No one up top seems to realize that. No one seems to care, no matter how many bombs are planted.’
‘There are those in the government who care about the dead. You know this.’
‘About the dead? Maybe. But not about what’s killing them.’ (Pg. 26)

“‘They’ll stalk you,’ Organa said. ‘I know it’s a horrifying situation, but you can’t fight every evil in the galaxy.’
‘Evil?’ Padmé said. ‘I’ve fought evil and it was easy: I shot it. It’s apathy I can’t stand.’” (Pg. 307)

"'It galls me... but I've decided to wait a bit longer before I address the Senate directly over a motion I've written. They all remember what happened the first time I addressed them, and that sort of government shake-up isn't easily forgiven.'
'You saved us,' Sola said. 'That's what happened.' (Pg. 264)

“‘His name was Qui-Gon Jinn, a Jedi,’ Padmé said. As always, a feeling of almost overwhelming sadness threatened her when she thought of her. He had been patient and understanding of her, never asking for more than she was willing to give, and he had given all, in the end.” (Pg. 189)

“It was immediately apparent that the idea of being senator had never crossed Padmé’s mind, but now that it had been proposed, it was all but set in stone.” (Pg. 52)

“Eirtaé didn’t stand—there was no point in calling attention to herself—but she did lock eyes with the queen she loved, put her hands over her heart, and bow her head. Padmé returned the gesture, and Eirtaé returned to her silent contemplation of the lake.” (Pg. 44)

I usually only post quotes from pages I just read in my updates, but I had to note that I’m only on the cover page of Obi-Wan’s one-shot, and it’s already been written twice in text unrelated to the stories that Anakin is potentially the Chosen One... I’m so scared right now.

“‘Understand this,’ Leia says, her voice louder than a whisper. ‘You need me. I’m still the face of this republic. Don’t make me walk away from that.’
Mon stiffens. ‘You’d really do that? You’d injured the New Republic over this?’
‘I would burn down the whole galaxy if I thought it was right!’” (Ch. 29)

“I’m utterly bewildered 9 times out of 10, I just happen to make it look good. I don’t know what I’m doing here either. I suspect that the moment I have it figured out, I’ll probably die half a second later. Because if there’s one mystical energy that powers the galaxy, it’s not the Force; it’s pure, unadulterated irony.” (Ch. 11)

“Now go, before the Council realize what’s happened.”
“They’re going to be furious.”
“I sincerely hope so.”
(Part 6, scene 102)

“‘Someone has been stealing ships right here on Takodana,’ Maz continued.
‘Who would do such a thing?’ I exclaimed. And I put both hands to my chest to show my shock and outrage—which at that moment, with a blaster pointed at me, was absolutely genuine.” (Loc 1558-64)

“My dear, you do not get to be a successful pirate by stealing things that are hard to get. No, you steal the easy pickings. As my sweet mother used to say, the easier something is to steal, the more it is asking to be stolen.” (Loc 871)

“They were like brothers, if one brother were covered in fur and the other were a grouch, and I wondered what had transpired between them, the man and the Wookiee, to make them two halves of a whole. And again I felt that gap in my soul, only I wondered if it was ship-shaped after all.” (Loc 470-475)