40 Quotes by John Jackson Miller

I won’t patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

Or maybe it’s time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren’t gods – just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I’m sure we can.

It’s good to have an ally in the military who understands what I’m doing.

The Clone Wars were yet another thing to be upset about. Everything about that conflict had been a lie. The Separatists had been this big enemy, and yet when the Empire was declared they’d melted away as if at the push of a button. The big corporations had staged the whole thing, Skelly was sure. Wars sold more ships, more weapons, and more medical devices. And in the Clone Wars, even the soldiers on both sides were manufactured goods.

In theory, say you did have thousands of people – no, thousands of systems – enraged at a hypothetical Galactic Empire in a faraway galaxy. But they’re all upset over local matters, over particular grievances, and they never get together on anything. So they get no strength in numbers, no strategic advantages from cooperation. They’re easy to divide and conquer. And worst of all, no common spirit ever develops.

But seeing and doing nothing isn’t the worst thing,” Hera had said. “The worst thing is to see and not to care.

But the Jedi had a saying about fear. It leads, ultimately, to suffering.” Hera paused. “Someone has to break the chain.

We don’t think us and them. It’s just you, versus everyone else. No one else matters.

The Jedi had always preached against forming connections, to prevent their acolytes from putting too much value in any one relationship. In so doing, they had unwittingly trained their students to be the perfect fugitives, able to cut and run at any moment. As long as they didn’t stop to care, they could go on indefinitely.