“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”

“Freedom is just chaos with better lighting”

“If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.”

“The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption.”

“The storm hit with all the fury of a woman who’d been dieting for six months, only to discover she’d gained four pounds.”

“Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”

“Crendendo Vides: By Believing, One Sees”

“That was her life, Rey reflected: a succession of anxious moments, interrupted only by the novelty of occasional panic.”

“…those who have their mouths open all the time generally have their ears shut.”

“If there was one thing a competent fighting force did not need, Hux knew, it was unforeseen outbursts of individuality.”

“She finally managed to free her fingers from his. “I know how to run without you holding my hand!”

“Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself. So everyone had argued and debated and discussed. Until it was too late.”

“When people don’t have access to facts, they invent what they’d like to believe, or what they think others would like to hear.”

“Chewie, we’re home,”

“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)”

“Never underestimate a droid,”

“you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible.”

“That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock”

“She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment.”

“With a shock, the trooper who had arrived to render aid to his fallen comrade recognized the one whose life was now bleeding out inside his armor. They had trained together. Shared meals, stories, experiences together. Now they were sharing death together.”

“Hearing his howls of outrage, a pair of stormtroopers crossing at the far end of the access hallway changed course to investigate. What they saw within the cell as bits and pieces of red-hot debris came flying out caused them to retreat the way they had come—fast.”

“Oh really? You’re cold?”

“The trooper spoke while staring nervously down the corridor. “Because it’s the right thing to do.” Poe shook his head, not buying it for a second. “Buddy, if we’re gonna do this, we have to be honest with each other.” The trooper stared at him for a long moment. “I need a pilot.”

“A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you.”

“Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force, and all will be given over to the dark side.”

“I’m not afraid of the dark I know. It’s the dark I don’t that terrifies me.”

“Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity.”

“A man with a gun may hunt a tiger during the day with some expectation of success. Turn out his light, put the man in the jungle at night, surround him with the unknown and all his primitive fears return. Advantage to the tiger.”

“Yes, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. Hello, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, just Rey.”

“A star has died. Elsewhere in the cosmos, in an unremarkable corner of one galactic arm, a child was born. Such is the balance of existence.”

“No one understands the lonely perfection of my dreams.”

“Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.”

“Hux refused to pace, regarding it as a waste of energy.”

“There are even a handful who like to collect biological specimens. Those with money collect live ones. Those without money become scientists.”

“Death displays nothing if not variety in its methods, which are often surprising and sometimes amusing.”

“The Supreme Leader’s voice was flat. “You have compassion for her.” “No—never. Compassion? For an enemy of the Order?” “I perceive the problem,” Snoke intoned. “It isn’t her strength that is making you fail. It’s your weakness.” The rebuke hurt, but Ren didn’t show it.”

“There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate”

“I haven’t got time to explain it to you, kid, but—that’s not how the Force works.”

“But then, to those behind the First Order, sowing fear and terror was merely politics by another means.”

“Rule makers always draw up their precious rules and regulations in safety and comfort, not out in the field, where those same absolutes are supposed to be applied. At those times we have to rely on our own minds and feelings.”

“Acknowledge beauty when you see it. Even if its appearance disturbs you, surely you can admire the skill that went into its design.”

“Curiosity, after all, was what had driven mankind out from his isolated, unimportant world and across the gulf between the stars. It had also, he thoughtfully reminded himself, killed the figurative cat.”

“You stink of humanity,' he murmured, 'but I'll love you just the same.”

“To be angered by evil is to partake of it, stupid. - Phrases of Import and Salvation, Chapter IX, The Book of Universal Truths and Other Humorous Anecdotes”

“You always think you can make it up to somebody—later, you know.’ She took a deep breath. ‘But now I never can. I never can.”

“I do not 'gallivant,'" Truzenzuzex commented primly. "I plan in haste.”

“He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn’t expected the alien to be so completely alien.”

“Crazy thing is, it’s all real. The Jedi, the Force – it’s true. All true.”

“I will remove these restraints. And leave this cell, with the door open, and retire to my living quarters. I will speak of this encounter to no one.”

“Those who had led the rebellion had under-estimated the deeply buried desire of far too large a proportion of the population who simply preferred to be told what to do. Much easier it was to follow orders than to think for oneself.”