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"I don't know how to make a person care for someone other than their own. Some days I can't even do it myself."

"I know. I know but will do nothing as long as this benefits me. Only later, when it ceases to benefit me, will I proclaim in great heaving sobs my grief that such a thing was ever allowed to happen. And you, all of you, will indulge my obliviousness now and my repentance later, because what affords me both is, in the end, not some finely honed argument of logic or moral primacy, but the blunt barrel of a gun."

"The implicit assumption is that certain people are incapable of responding to their mistreatment with grace, with patience, with love, and that this incapacity, not any external injustice, is responsible for the misery inflicted upon them."

"But surely any true appreciation of beauty would admit, exclaim even, that no description of the moon, no matter how stunning, how true, reflects as much beauty back into the world as a missile obliterating a family in their home takes out of it."

"She merely nodded and flicked off her weapon, noting to herself that one of the many benefits of a lightsaber, a benefit she had never considered before, was that one never had to clean blood off the blade."

"Is there distance great enough, to be free of this? To be made clean?"

this book is SO much more interesting when we cut back to coruscant

bail's chapters are going a lot better than i expected but, surprising no one, i am really struggling with soujen

senator mothma is my centrist mother and i would rescue her from any situation

if only this entire book were from mon mothma's pov ,,,

noooooooo, why does it have to begin with bail organa 😭

taking my time with this because i honestly don't think i want it to end and their dumbassery is stressing me out 😂

poor petru, he's the only one with a braincell here 😭

he is so unserious 😭