"Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization creates peace. We fight for justice because justic..."
- Matthew Woodring Stover
"Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."-Vergere"
"No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain"
"Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization.Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god—he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin’s death. But it is also a teacher, an..."
"The hope crashes into reality and people get hurt."
"Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies."
"Every time a horse let you up onto its back, it’s giving you its life. Every time."
"Darkness is a knife that peels away the rind of what you think you know about yourself. The shades of your pretenses, the tones of your illusions, the layers of deception that glaze your life into the..."
"The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that burns in your hearth, and in the kettle on the fire; it is under your chair..."
"His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her, far away, alone in her apartment in the dark, a hand that felt the silken softness of her skin and ..."