Star Wars Quotes

“Will I ever see you again?” he sobbed. “What does your heart tell you?” Anakin tried to listen to his heart, but all he sensed was its ache.”
― Ryder Windham, The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

“Luke’s clothes began to smolder as his body involuntarily spasmed. Suddenly, Vader realized that he was no longer concerned about his own personal future. Despite all the terrible, unspeakable things he’d done in his life, he knew he could not stand by and allow the Emperor to kill Luke. And in that moment of awareness, he was Darth Vader no more. He was Anakin Skywalker.”
― Ryder Windham, The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

“Anakin frowned. “I don’t want things to change.” “But you can’t stop the change,” Shmi said, “any more than you can stop the suns from setting.”
― Ryder Windham, The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

“Will you take him with you? Is he to become a Jedi?” “Yes.” Qui-Gon said. “Our meeting was not a coincidence. Nothing happens by accident.”
― Ryder Windham, The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

“Anakin named the droid C-3PO, choosing the number three because he considered the droid the third member of his family after his mother and himself.”
― Ryder Windham, The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

“As he gazed at the distant stars on the screen, a deeply buried memory pushed its way into his consciousness. It was the memory of a wish, a wish to visit every star in the galaxy. But that wish, and the dreams that went with it, had belonged to someone else, a child who lived a long time ago and was no more. Those were the dreams of a boy named Anakin Skywalker.”
― Ryder Windham, The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader

“It was definitely not a dream, Vader convinced himself without difficulty. Dreams are for pathetic life-forms. He stared at his own reflection on the surface of the viewscreen. I am the nightmare.”
― Ryder Windham, The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader