The Fallen Star (Star Wars: The High Republic)

by Claudia Gray

There was nothing like a pet to remind you to release your worries and live in the moment.

The past is gone. The future is only a dream. The present is all.

Negative emotions might be overwhelming at times, but it was easy to name them for what they were. The real danger, she had said, lies in those emotions that seem positive at first, but take too great a hold over our minds and hearts. Give way to those feelings, embrace them, and before you know it, they’ve been twisted into something else far more damaging.

It is easier to believe in things when we are fighting for them.

Each individual was a small spark of the one great consciousness, the universe beholding itself; if you’d do something to save your own life, he figured, you ought to be willing to do it to save another’s.