Padawan Quotes

“What would you think, if your own student was doing this?"
"Oh, I'll never have a Padawan as bad as I am." Obi-Wan was certain of that.”
― Kiersten White, Padawan

“Despite what others may call them, no one is ever truly lost. There is always hope in the Force.”
― Kiersten White, Padawan

“If we cut off everyone whose choices differ from our own, we would stagnate and cease to learn, cease to grow. We must let people choose their path, and let them go as they see fit, but always leave a door open for them to return.”
― Kiersten White, Padawan

“What he wouldn't give to be carved in stone, too. To have his destiny, his path through the Force, already written. Something he could study, reference, cross-check, and follow like his own personal course charted through his own personal stars. Because then he'd know what he was supposed to do and, more important, that he could do it. That he wasn't disappointing anyone.”
― Kiersten White, Padawan

“I can’t believe they would try to blow you up.” “So uncivilized. The least they could have done is shot me to my face.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“But he'd didn't know what to say. “Thanks for the adventure. Hope your new lives are great. Please miss me, so I feel like I had an impact here.”
― Kiersten White, Padawan

“The beacon had sent its desperate plea into space, but there was no one on the other side, no one waiting. "I know how you feel," Obi-Wan said, sympathizing with an inert hunk of metal.”
― Kiersten White, Padawan

“I thought you Jedi weren’t supposed to live in the past,” Casul grumbled. “Live there, no. But learn from it? Always.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“I know how you feel,” Obi-Wan said, sympathizing with an inert hunk of metal.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“If we cut off everyone whose choices differ from our own, we would stagnate and cease to learn, cease to grow. We must let people choose their path, and let them go as they see fit, but always leave a door open for them to return. Despite what others may call them, no one is ever truly lost.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“For so long he had been afraid of being afraid. Closing himself off to his feelings because of what they might mean, what they might lead to. But closing himself off was doing the opposite of what he hoped. It wasn't about not feeling fear or ambition or anything else he didn't think was right for a Jedi. It was about whether or not he gave those feelings power.”
― Kiersten White, Padawan

“Never trust a captain who doesn’t care about losing his crew. No job is worth dying for.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“Sometimes,” Qui-Gon had said, smiling gently down at Obi-Wan as the Padawan rubbed his bruised backside, “any choice is safer than not making one at all.” Obi-Wan was still straddling that ever-widening void, not sure where to plant his feet.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“please try not to die.” “I promise to do my best.” “Good enough,”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“But it was too much work for too little reward.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“Which fit in with the entire theme of this planetary sojourn. No one knew anything. Obi-Wan usually liked knowing things. He liked having answers. He even liked having rules, now that he thought about it. They gave him something to follow—and something to push against. Without rules and checklists and expectations, he didn’t know whether he was making the right choices.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“whose names were not actually Shush, Trill, and Whistle, but rather those sounds—”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“How could such a beautiful place be so hostile? It wasn’t just the animals. The trees, the rocks, even the ground itself seemed to conspire against them.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“But was that really the worst that could happen? Obi-Wan knew in his heart it wasn’t. The scenario that made it hard to catch his breath, that felt like a weight on his chest, would be arriving home and discovering that absolutely no one had noticed or cared that he was gone. Having so little importance in the Order, so little presence in the Force, that he was neither missed nor even thought of when absent.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“But then again, I’m a Padawan who stole a ship and is going on a rogue mission without his master, so I can hardly critique behavior now, can I?”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“But rather than possibility, that much freedom felt like an ending.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“Ah, but there’s no reason not to be polite.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“It was what Obi-Wan wanted, what he had always wanted, what he was sometimes afraid he wanted so desperately that he was the one blocking the Force from guiding him.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“But all Obi-Wan wanted was to be a Jedi Knight, to go out into the galaxy and be an agent of goodness, of order, of the light.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“He’d passed the test. He had been so proud that day, holding his glowing blue weapon, so sure of his place among the Jedi. So certain of his connection to the Force and his bright future in the galaxy. Where had that connection gone? Where had that confidence evaporated to? Why, now that he was finally a Padawan, did he feel smaller and more lost than he ever had before?”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“wondered if she, too, had struggled. If she had wanted her own destiny carved in stone just like he did.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“Maybe that was why he liked it so much. There was still that hushed sense of promise, that hum of knowledge.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“Everyone else was where they should be. So why had Qui-Gon picked Obi-Wan, when it felt like they couldn’t connect on anything?”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“Trying to sound like he hadn’t spent this entire meditation period chasing his own fears around in a circle until he felt completely tied up by them.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan

“And then he was terrified of being terrified, because fear was a path to the dark side.”
― Kiersten White, Star Wars: Padawan