“If you don't want to be noticed, you don't use a Star Destroyer.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“You're not the last of the old Jedi, Luke, you're the first of the new”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities. (Talon Karrde)”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Do you know the difference between an error and a mistake, Ensign?”
The entire bridge had gone deathly still. Colclazure swallowed again, his face starting to go pale. “No, sir.”
“Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Fear and anger, Yoda had often warned him, were slaves to the dark side. Vaguely, Luke wondered which side curiosity served.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“I’ve found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“He risked a glance at the aft-vision display. The other fighter was coming up fast, with no more than a minute or two separating the two ships. Obviously, the pilot had far more experience with the craft than Luke had. That, or else such a fierce determination to recapture Luke that it completely overrode normal commonsense caution.
Either way, it meant Mara Jade.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Learn about art, Captain,” Thrawn said, his voice almost dreamy. “When you understand a species’ art, you understand that species.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“For the Jedi, there is no emotion; there is peace.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Yes, but in spite of such a shady origin, it’s really quite good,” Luke told him. “It’s called hot chocolate.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“a Jedi can’t get so caught up in matters of galactic importance that it interferes with his concern for individual people.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“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”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“One spoke to him in person, or one did not speak to him at all.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“A writer absolutely has to make his villains clever and competent. It’s no fun—and no challenge—for the heroes to get out of trouble without sweating about it first.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Thrawn smiled—a smile that sent a shiver up Pellaeon's back. "Why, the only puzzle worth solving, of course," the Grand Admiral said softly. "The complete, total, and utter destruction of the Rebellion.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“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”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Estudie arte, Capitán. Si entiende el arte de una especie, entiende a esa especie.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Then I am alone, he told himself. I am the last of the Jedi.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Cualquiera puede cometer un error, subteniente, pero el error no se convierte en equivocación hasta que el causante se niega a corregirlo.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Isn’t that what you said Yoda told you before you died?”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“But just because he couldn’t sense it didn’t necessarily mean it wasn’t there.11”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“You served too long under Lord Vader, Captain. I Have no qualms about accepting a useful idea merely because it wasn't my own. My position and ego are not at stake here.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“hesitated; swooped again; hesitated again; swooped once more”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“This was one of those odd thoughts that came out of the blue and struck me as both clever and logical. Hot chocolate wouldn’t be something desert people would naturally gravitate toward. (There are cold deserts, of course, but with two suns I always assumed Tatooine is mostly pretty warm. Now, of course, the Star Wars Essential Atlas and other official material backs up that assumption.) I also caught way more grief for this than I ever expected. Quite a few people took me to task for putting an Earth-based drink into the Star Wars universe. Of course, those same people apparently weren’t bothered by the Millennium Falcon, or lightsabers. It was, though, a reminder that you never know what word or image might jolt someone out of their suspension of disbelief. Anyway, why would anyone want to live in that Galaxy Far, Far Away if they don’t have chocolate? Inconceivable …”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
“Firmly, Luke put the thought out of his mind. Mourning the loss of a friend and teacher was both fitting and honorable, but to dwell unnecessarily on that loss was to give the past too much power over the present. The”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Heir to the Empire
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“He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light”
― Michael Ondaatje, quote from In the Skin of a Lion
“How passionately she longed to be important to somebody again - not important on platforms, not important as an asset in an organisation, but privately important, just to one other person, quite privately, nobody else to know or notice. It didn't seem much to ask in a world so crowded with people, just to have one of them, only one out of all the millions to oneself. Somebody who needed one, who thought of one, who was eager to come to one - oh, oh how dreadfully one wanted to be precious.”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, quote from The Enchanted April
“When infinity opens to us, terrible indeed is the closing of the gate behind.”
― Victor Hugo, quote from The Man Who Laughs
“...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.”
― Jonathan Tropper, quote from This is Where I Leave You
“As an example of something , let us consider the time it takes light to go across a proton, 10 to the negative 24 second. If we compare this time with the age of the universe , 2 times 10 to the tenth power years, the answer is 10 to the negative 42nd power. It has about the same number of zeros going off it, so it has been proposed that the gravitational constant is related to the age of the universe.”
― Richard Feynman, quote from The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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