Bloodline

by Claudia Gray

We alone manage our own affairs, Populist worlds said; the corollary to this was We manage only our own affairs. When each planet was focused only on its own best interests, problems on other worlds were ignored.

Failing to help those in need was bad enough for a government that claimed to represent and protect everyone. But even those too shortsighted to understand that ought to realize that one world’s difficulties often spread offplanet and magnified exponentially. One world’s epidemic could become a system-wide pandemic.

“Surely you won’t deny the New Republic is committing mistakes of its own.” “Not the evils of tyranny and control.” “No. The evils of absence and neglect.”

“My real father—the only father I ever knew or wanted—was Bail Organa of Alderaan.”

it’s like a dagger went into my soul 💔