Star Wars Quotes

“Hobbie: "Have I told you today how much I really, really hate you?"
Janson: "Oh, sure, your lips say 'I hate you' but your eyes say—"
Hobbie: "That someday I'll murder you in your sleep?”
― Matthew Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“I have known Jedi. Many, many years ago. That knowing was not a gladness for me. I believed I would never know another, and I rejoiced in that belief.
But it is a gladness for me to be proven wrong.
I am happy to have known you, Jedi Luke Skywalker. You are more than they were.
"That's--" Luke shook his head blankly, blinking against the darkness. "I mean, thanks, but I barely know anything."
So you believe. But I say to you: you are greater than the Jedi of former days.
Luke could only frown, and shake his head again. "What makes you say that?"
Because unlike the Knights of old, Jedi Luke Skywalker...
You are not afraid of the dark.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“Gone is the past, he remembered Master Yoda saying once. Imaginary is the future. Always now, even eternity will be. Which Luke had always interpreted as Don't worry about what's already done, and don't worry about what you'll do later. Do something now.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“Suddenly he felt like everything was all wrong. He’d made wrong choices every day of his life. In his mind’s eye floated everyone who’d died because of him. Everyone who’d been hurt. From Mindor to Endor, back to Yavin—back to the corpses that had lain, still smoking, in the ruined doorway of the Lars moisture farm. I guess I sort of thought everything was over. I got my happy ending. I thought I did. I mean, didn’t I do everything you asked me to? Master Yoda, you wanted to break the rule of the Sith. And they’re gone. Ben, you asked me to destroy Darth Vader. I did that, too. Father—even you, Father. You told me that together we would throw down the Emperor. And we did. Now it’s over. But it’s not the end. It’s never the end. The cave boomed and shivered as the rock storm arrived like an artillery barrage. Luke just sat, head down, letting dust and grit trickle inside the back of his collar as meteorites pounded the hills. I guess I was still kind of hoping there might be a Happily Ever After in there somewhere. Not even for me. I was ready to die. I still am. It’s everybody else. It’s like everything we went through, it was for nothing. We’re still fighting. We’ll always be fighting. It’s like I didn’t actually save anybody. Gone is the past, he remembered Master Yoda saying once. Imaginary is the future. Always now, even eternity will be. Which Luke had always interpreted as Don’t worry about what’s already done, and don’t worry about what you’ll do later. Do something now. Which would be fine advice, if he had the faintest clue what that something should be. Maybe if he’d had more experience as a general, he’d know if he should search for his missing men, or return to the crash site and wait for pickup, or try to find some way to signal the task force spaceside. I never should have taken this job. I just don’t know what a general would be doing right now. All I know is what a Jedi … Then his head came up. I do know what a Jedi would be doing—and it isn’t sitting around feeling sorry for himself, for starters.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“Oh, you’re a lot of help. Luke, ignore him anyway—he hates officers.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“Because he was a Jedi, they all assumed that he actually knew what he was doing. If only it were true …”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“clear blue eyes”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“We just got beat, he thought. They outplanned us. Suckered us in. And we went for it headfirst because we thought we were invincible. We thought the good guys always win. Of all of them, Luke was the only one who had never suffered under that delusion. Well: not never. Han had told him once that something in Luke had changed after Bespin. Somehow Luke understood—in a way that Lando never had, that Han and Leia and Chewbacca had simply never grasped—just how dark a place the universe really was. Lando guessed that was where Luke got his humility. His kindness. His gentle faith that people could change for the better. That must have been why he rarely smiled, and almost never made jokes. Because that goodness was all he really had. It was his lifeline. The rope to which he clung, dangling above the abyss.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“Here we are, in the Dark, he thought. And it's not empty. It's not meaningless. Not with us all here.
It's beautiful.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“This was impossible. This must be some hallucination, a twisted product of his Darksight run amok. He was in hyperspace! Hyperspace did not, could not, interact with realspace--
I was with Ben Kenobi in hyperspace when he felt the destruction of Alderaan.
No wall can contain the Force.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“He had thought he was bringing light with him into the darkness, by holding on to the Force. Now he saw that the Force's light didn't shine on him. It shone through him.
He was the light in the darkness.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“Because that's what Jedi do, isn't it? Luke thought. That's what we're for.
We're the ones who bring the light.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“He bared his teeth and thumbed the carbine over to full auto.
And hesitated.
He had this instant, extraordinarily vivid vision of trying to explain to the sadly patient face of Luke Skywalker-- the man who had spared Nick's life a couple hours earlier based on nothing more than a pun and a vague intuition that he might be innocent-- how I just blew away thirty-some innocent men and women so I could dig you out of there, because he had an overpowering intuition of his own: if Luke Skywalker thought he might save thirty innocent lives by sacrificing his own, he wouldn't hesitate. Ten innocent lives.
One.
"Or, hell, one not-so-innocent life," Nick muttered. "Like mine."
He flipped the carbine's power setting to stun. "I hate Jedi. Hate 'em. Really, really, really. Hate.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“If far from the Force you find yourself, trust you can that it is not the Force which moved.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor

“In the distant reaches of his memory, he found a lesson of Yoda’s, from one long solstice night, deep in the jungle near Dagobah’s equator. When to the Force you truly give yourself, all you do expresses the truth of who you are, Yoda had said, leaning forward so that the knattik-root campfire painted blue shadows within the deep creases of his ancient face. Then through you the Force will flow, and guide your hand it will, until the greatest good might come of your smallest gesture.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor