Star Wars Quotes

“So when she wasn’t sleeping or just sitting and listening to the storm or tinkering at her workbench, she flew.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“In their armor they were all the same, and that was the point, he understood. But he took pleasure in the moments when he could see their variety and diversity—those moments when he could glimpse the people beneath the armor and see them as more than just faceless, nameless soldiers identified by letters and numbers and nothing more.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“It was, strangely, like coming home, as if this was the place Poe had meant to be all along.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“She released his hand and sat back. That air of sadness had descended on her once more. His father had carried a similar melancholy after his mother had passed; Poe would see it descend on him like a shadow, settle over his shoulders like a blanket made of warmth and memory and longing and loss. Leia wore something made of the same material, and not for the first time Poe wondered how she had come by it and, perhaps more importantly, who had given it to her.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“I’m hoping Lor San Tekka knows where to find my brother, Poe. And Luke Skywalker may be the only hope we have left.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“In that moment he understood it had never been a game. He understood that he was never going to be one of them.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“The need to do what’s right, and maybe find a little adventure along the way.” Poe shifted in his seat. “You remind me of my brother,” Leia said softly. “Fly like him, too, apparently.” Poe looked at her, surprised and flattered at once.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“Have you heard of the Resistance, Poe?” “Rumors, mostly.” “Such as?” “Such as there’s a splinter of the Republic military that…that feels the Republic isn’t taking certain threats as seriously as they maybe ought to be taking them. Specifically the threat posed by the First Order.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“She listened intently, her chin in her hand, her elbow on her knee. Poe couldn’t remember ever having felt so heard by anyone in all his life.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“they said you could see hopelessness in the eyes of everyone you met.” “That’s the word,” Leia said, as much to herself as to Poe. “Without hope.” “Where did it go?” he asked, and the question seemed so much more important than he meant it to be, but as he asked he was thinking of his father, and his mother, of everything they had sacrificed and fought for.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“His father had carried a similar melancholy after his mother had passed; Poe would see it descend on him like a shadow, settle over his shoulders like a blanket made of warmth and memory and longing and loss.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“Poe watched his father raise his eyes from the fence and stare up into the dusk sky. The sun had almost slipped behind the gas giant, and in the last moments of daylight everything seemed oddly brighter, more sharply in focus. “That”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“Losing his mother had brought death to him in a way he never could’ve conceived of before, and he understood then that war was not romantic; people died, and the dead were not returned to those who loved them, no matter how much they might wish otherwise. That was as terrifying a thought as it was a heartbreaking one.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“The problem had to be with him, FN-2187 thought. That was the only explanation. It was what everyone had been saying all along, after all. He was different. Maybe he was so different he was broken. So he would work to fix it, to be a real stormtrooper, to be one of them. That was, he thought, what he wanted most of all. Not to be alone.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“FN-2187,” Phasma said, “has the potential to be one of the finest stormtroopers I have ever seen.” “From what I just observed, Captain, I agree.” “But his decision to split the fire-team and return for FN-2003 is problematic. It speaks to a potentially…dangerous level of empathy. You heard him.” “‘You’re one of us’?” “Yes, sir. While I am entirely in support of unit cohesion, General, a stormtrooper’s loyalty must be higher, as you know. It must be to the First Order, not to one’s comrades.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“That was, he thought, what he wanted most of all. Not to be alone.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“He began to wonder if there was something wrong with him.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“He was different. Maybe he was so different he was broken.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“It was responsible for the interlopers who plagued their lands. It”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“ceiling, then”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“She’d jury-rigged a computer using pieces scavenged from several crashed fighters over the years, including a cracked but still-usable display from an old BTL-A4 Y-wing. There were no radio communications to speak of—no way to transmit or receive and, frankly, nobody she wanted to talk to anyway. On the wreckage of a Zephra-series hauler, though, she’d once found a stash of data chips, and after painstakingly going through each and every one of them, she’d discovered three with their programs intact; one of them, to her delight, had been a flight simulator.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“So he was FN-2187, well on his way to becoming the ideal First Order stormtrooper. That was what everyone thought, at least. Except FN-2187 himself.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“It’s a big galaxy. The First Order is a remnant born of a war thirty years gone. Yes, they persist, yes, they continue, but by all accounts they do so barely. They are, at best, an ill-organized, poorly equipped, and badly funded group of loyalists who use propaganda and fear to inflate their strength and their importance.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“The instructors demonstrated the use of each weapon, the vibro-axes and shock staffs and force pikes and resonator maces, elaborating at length on the respective strengths and weaknesses of each and when and how to employ them to best effect. They explained the composite alloys used to make the weapons, how some of the equipment was strong enough to block even a lightsaber. FN-2187 wondered about that—not whether it was true but whether or not they would ever be expected to fight someone who used a lightsaber. According to the First Order, the Jedi were extinct.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“The First Order brought law to a lawless galaxy.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“Despite that commitment, the Resistance found itself stymied. Republic space and First Order space were separated by a buffer zone of neutral systems, and the peace that had been negotiated—a peace that many, including Poe, believed existed in name only—meant that military action taken by one side upon the other was considered an overt act of war. It”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“Rapier Squadron was transferred from Mirrin Prime and redeployed aboard a refitted Mon Calamari cruiser called Echo of Hope.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“I can whitewash your little trip out to OR-Kappa-2722 for you. I can sweep it under the rug if you like. You can go back to leading Rapier Squadron and having your hands tied by Command, by Major Deso, by politicians who don’t recognize what’s happening right before their eyes. I can make it all go away, Poe.” She leaned forward. “Or you can join the Resistance and help us stop the First Order before it’s too late.” “Where do I sign up?” Poe asked.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“like Poe, she was what was referred to as a “victory kid,” one of the hundreds of millions—if not billions—of sentients who had been conceived in response to the Empire’s fall.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening

“in clear violation of the Galactic Concordance.”
― Greg Rucka, Star Wars: Before the Awakening