Revelation (Star Wars: Legacy of the Force, #8)

by Karen Traviss

Better one big enemy that you can see than many small ones that you can’t. —Mandalorian proverb

The longest-lived empires were those with the lightest hand on the reins.

“My enemy’s enemy is my friend, right?” “My enemy’s always my enemy but we can both get smart and put that aside while we deal with a common threat.”

“Doing the right thing isn’t something special. It’s the minimum. It’s where we start each morning, not where we try to end up one day in the future.

“Never underestimate the calming power of a list.”

The past couldn’t be changed, just observed. Watching history was pointless unless lessons were learned from it and used to shape what could be changed—the next moment, and the next, because that was all the future was, a series of decisions taken differently.