Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)

by Claudia Gray

I must keep my mind on the present. The future does not exist; the past has ceased to be. Only the present is real.

“What use are ideals if we cannot fit them to the universe as we find it?” Qui-Gon had once asked him. “If our beliefs tell us one thing, and the needs of real people tell us another, can there be any question of which we should listen to?”

She’d saved the lives of fifteen free people and thirty-seven “items of sentient property.”

“People are more than their worst act,” Obi-Wan recited. It was something Qui-Gon had said to him many times, which at last seemed to be sinking in. “At least, most people. And they are also more than the worst thing ever done to them.”