Queen's Peril Quotes

“On a dusty world with two bright suns, a little boy looked up from his work and saw an angel.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril

“What I learned was that I'd rather be second to you than first to anyone else.''
Confessing her feelings was like a weight lifting off of Sabe's chest. It had taken her so long to figure it out, to put words to what she knew in her heart. And now she had done it. She wanted to fly.
'I can order you to your death,' Padme said.
Her voice was so quiet that Sabe barely heard her. She reached out and took Padme's hands.
'And I would go,' she said.
'I can't be that dedicated to you,' Padme said.
'I know,' Sabe said.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril

“Her veins and her skin and her bones were on fire and every time the fire went out, the droid asked her to betray her friends. It spoke so calmly and gave such logical arguments. Tell them what they wanted to know, and the fire would stay away. She was tempted. She was so, so tempted. Those few moments when the fire went out became the center of her galaxy.
But there was no choice. Sache picked her friends every time. And the fire burned on.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril

“The problem was that politicians wrote so many things down, and then Obi-Wan had to read them, because his master had a feeling that something was coming. Qui-Gon had a deeply annoying habit of bein correct about this sort of thing, which was one of the reasons Obi-Wan hadn't mutinied. Well, that and because he'd tried something very like mutiny once, and it hadn't gone well.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril

“The girl in the white dress was going to be Queen, and she was ready.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril

“And yet you are always second best,” Panaka continued. “At everything you have ever tried.”

Almost fourteen years of hard-fought control snapped through Tsabin's entire body. She would not give him the satisfaction of seeing how much it hurt. She would never, ever give that to anyone.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril

“Yoda took another moment to not reply. If he waited long enough, they almost always figured it out on their own. It was his favorite method of teaching.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril

“The girl in the white dress was never going to be Queen, but she was ready.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril

“Having a master who could sense your discontent was a real pain sometimes. It had averted disaster on a couple of occasions, but it was still embarrassing. Obi-Wan had hoped to leave it behind in his childhood, but he'd settle for cutting it off with his braid when the time came.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Peril