“May the Force be with you.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“Luke: Boy, it's lucky you have these compartments.
Han: I use them for smuggling. I never thought I'd be smuggling myself in them. This is ridiculous.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“there are two things men have never been able to satisfy: their curiosity and their greed.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“We’re a couple of shooting stars, Biggs, and we’ll never be stopped.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“TK-421, why aren't you at your post?”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“You must try to divorce your actions from conscious control. Try not to focus on anything concrete, visually or mentally. You must let your mind drift, drift; only then you can use the force. You have to enter to a state in which you act on what you sense, not on what you think beforehand. You must cease cognition, relax, stop thinking... let yourself drift... free... free...”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“He stood on the sand watching the double sunset as first one and then the other of Tatooine's twin suns sank slowly behind the distant range of dunes. In the fading light the sands turned gold, russet, and flaming red-orange before advancing night put the bright colors to sleep for another day.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from A New Hope
“Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I’ve known that ever since I can remember, just like i’ve always known I was one.”
― Rob Thurman, quote from Nightlife
“I had thought about Alban for a while. “Why,” I had then asked, “if your god can pull out a man’s eyes, didn’t he just save Alban’s life?” “Because God chose not to, of course!” Beocca had answered sniffily, which is just the kind of answer you always get when you ask a Christian priest to explain another inexplicable act of their god.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Sword Song
“The gods are capricious, and I was about to amuse them. And Alfred was right. I was a fool.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from The Burning Land
“We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.”
― Lauren DeStefano, quote from Sever
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