131 Quotes by Timothy Zahn

A friend need not be kept either within sight or within reach. A friend must be allowed the freedom to find and follow his own path. If one is fortunate, those paths will for a time join. But if the paths separate, it is comforting to know that a friend still graces the universe with his skills, and his viewpoint, and his presence. For if one is remembered by a friend, one is never truly gone.

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.

One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.

The maitrakh met her gaze steadily, her alien face unreadable.'Are you offering me your help?' Leia asked.'There is honor in you, Lady Vader,' the maitrakh said, her voice quiet. 'For the life and honor of my thirdson, I will go with you. Perhaps we will die together.'Leia nodded, her heart aching. 'Perhaps we will.

I don't think anyone ever goes into a war without the nagging feeling that there might have been some other way.

Still, even when false, legends can be most informative.

You happened to me," she told him, her voice more fatigued than embittered. "You came out of a grubby sixth-rate farm on a tenth-rate planet, and destroyed my life." - Mara Jade

She was here, and it was now; and as the emperor's instructors had so often drummed into her, the first item of business was to fit into her surroundings. And that meant not looking like an escapee from the medical ward

I know something about a lot of things," she countered evenly. "That's why you're grooming me to be your lieutenant, remember?" - Mara Jade