Quotes from The Star Wars Trilogy

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“Named must your fear be, before banish it you can.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. You're a foolish man Governor. Foolish men often choke to death on their own delusions.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend—only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one’s favor.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.” Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“Ackbar spoke desperately into the comlink. “It’s a trap.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“I find,” Vader ventured mildly, “this lack of faith disturbing.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“These stars marked the moments of the universe. There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“An angry electronic twang came from the Artoo unit. “Don’t call me a mindless philosopher,” Threepio snapped back, “you overweight, unstreamlined glob of grease!” Threepio”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“No,” Threepio responded, “I don’t think he likes you at all.” A second beep failed to alter the stern tone in the taller robot’s voice. “No, I don’t like you, either.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“Hocuspocus religions and archaic weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side,”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“No,” Yoda said impatiently. “Try not. Do, do. Or do not. There is no try.” Luke closed his eyes. He tried to envision the contours,”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“What’s a duck?” Luke asked curiously.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples … From the First Saga Journal of the Whills”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly. “These aren’t the ’droids we’re looking for.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“He was no longer an individual, functioning solely to satisfy his personal needs. Something now bound him to every other man and woman in this hangar. All”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“No,” Vader replied calmly. “I am your father.” Stunned,”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“There were aging orange embers, blue dwarfs, twin yellow giants. There were collapsing neutron stars, and angry supernovae that hissed into the icy emptiness. There were borning stars, breathing stars, pulsing stars, and dying stars. There was the Death Star. At”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“IT WAS AN OLD SETTLERS’ SAYING that you could burn your eyes out faster by staring straight and hard at the sun-scorched flatlands of Tatooine than by looking directly at its two huge suns themselves, so powerful was the penetrating glare reflected from those endless wastes.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“Force has never kept anything together for very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“Just once—and that was a long time ago, in a star system far, far away. This”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“To look at these two, one would have supposed that the tall, humanlike machine, Threepio, was the master and the stubby, tripodal robot, Artoo Detoo, an inferior. But while Threepio might have sniffed disdainfully at the suggestion, they were in fact equal in everything save loquacity.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“ANOTHER GALAXY, ANOTHER TIME. The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that … it was the Republic. Once, under the wise rule of the Senate and the protection of the Jedi Knights, the Republic throve and grew. But as often happens when wealth and power pass beyond the admirable and attain the awesome, then appear those evil ones who have greed to match. So it was with the Republic at its height. Like the greatest of trees, able to withstand any external attack, the Republic rotted from within though the danger was not visible from outside. Aided and abetted by restless, power-hungry individuals within the government, and the massive organs of commerce, the ambitious Senator Palpatine caused himself to be elected President of the Republic. He promised to reunite the disaffected among the people and to restore the remembered glory of the Republic. Once secure in office he declared himself Emperor, shutting himself away from the populace. Soon he was controlled by the very assistants and boot-lickers he had appointed to high office, and the cries of the people for justice did not reach his ears. Having exterminated through treachery and deception the Jedi Knights, guardians of justice in the galaxy, the Imperial governors and bureaucrats prepared to institute a reign of terror among the disheartened worlds of the galaxy. Many used the Imperial forces and the name of the increasingly isolated Emperor to further their own personal ambitions. But a small number of systems rebelled at these new outrages. Declaring themselves opposed to the New Order they began the great battle to restore the Old Republic. From the beginning they were vastly outnumbered by the systems held in thrall by the Emperor. In those first dark days it seemed certain the bright flame of resistance would be extinguished before it could cast the light of new truth across a galaxy of oppressed and beaten peoples … From the First Saga Journal of the Whills”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“One purpose, one thought, one obsession dominated that mind now. It burned in the brain of Darth Vader as he turned down another passageway in the broken fighter.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“That’s no moon,” Kenobi breathed softly.”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“The STAR WARS Novels Timeline OLD REPUBLIC 5000–33 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope Lost Tribe of the Sith* Precipice Skyborn Paragon Savior Purgatory Sentinel 3650 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope The Old Republic: Deceived Lost Tribe of the Sith* Pantheon Secrets Red Harvest The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance 1032 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope Knight Errant Darth Bane: Path of Destruction Darth Bane: Rule of Two Darth Bane: Dynasty of Evil RISE OF THE EMPIRE 33–0 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope Darth Maul: Saboteur* Cloak of Deception Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter 32 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope STAR WARS: EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace Rogue Planet Outbound Flight The Approaching Storm 22 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope STAR WARS: EPISODE II: Attack of the Clones 22–19 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope The Clone Wars The Clone Wars: Wild Space The Clone Wars: No Prisoners Clone Wars Gambit Stealth Siege Republic Commando Hard Contact Triple Zero True Colors Order 66 Shatterpoint The Cestus Deception The Hive* MedStar I: Battle Surgeons MedStar II: Jedi Healer Jedi Trial Yoda: Dark Rendezvous Labyrinth of Evil 19 YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS: A New Hope STAR WARS: EPISODE III: Revenge of the Sith Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader Imperial Commando 501st Coruscant Nights Jedi Twilight Street of Shadows Patterns of Force The”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“But that’s not why they should help us. That’s why I used to do stuff, because it was in my interest. But not anymore. Well, not so much, anyway. Mostly I do things for my friends, now—’cause what else is so important? Money? Power? Jabba had that, and you know what happened to him. Okay, okay, the point is—your friends are … your friends. You know?” This”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“But I was going into Tosche station to pick up some new power converters and …”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

“That’s a power outlet, stupid, not an information terminal.” Artoo”
― Alan Dean Foster, quote from The Star Wars Trilogy

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“In a world so empty of human life, there was comfort in the thought that an invisible realm of spirits was aware of their existence, cared about their actions, and perhaps directed their steps. Even a stern or inimical spirit who cared enough to demand certain actions of appeasement was better than the heartless disregard of a harsh and indifferent world, in which their lives were entirely in their own hands, with no one else to turn to in time of need, not even in their thoughts.”
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