Matthew Stover Quotes

Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

"Depa is right: Jedi are insane." <br/k> "Ever since I came to this planet, people have been telling me how crazy I am. They've told me this so many times that I had started to wonder if it might be true. Now, though, I understand: you don't say this because it's true. Not even because you think it's true. You say it because you hope it's true. Because if I am insane, you aren't really the revolting slime-hearted vermin that, down deep, you know you are."

Fairy tales--simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.

The problem with happy endings is that nothing is ever truly over.

"I respect what is repectable," Tan'elkoth replied. "To ask for respect where none has been earned is childish maundering.And what is repectable, in the end, save service? Even your idol Jefferson is, in the end, measured by how well he served the species. The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity."

"They lit us up! Missiles incoming! Six count, closing, dead astern!" <br/k> "Back-trace the missile lock and feed it to the computer for counter-fire." <br/k> "Great idea! I'll get right on that first thing as soon as I graduate from gunnery school!"

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

This is the most valuable lesson one can teach a fanatic: that fanaticism is self-defeating.

Reasons are for peasants.

He did understand. Finally, fatally, he did. He had thought he was the master of history, that his fractal world-tree had grown according to his will. He had allowed himself to be deceived.

Do you solemnly swear to serve the Republic in thought, in word, and in deed; to defend its citizens, resist its enemies, and champion its justice with the whole of your heart, your strength, and your mind; to foreswear all other allegiances; to obey all lawful orders of your superior officers; to uphold the highest ideals of the Republic, and at all times to conduct yourself to the credit of the Republic as its commissioned officer, by witness of, aid from, and faith in the force?

His destiny had betrayed him, had made him a destroyer on a scale that humbled even Caine. Destiny, he understood with bitter certainty, could not be trusted.

I gave them the word of a Jedi Master that if they surrendered I would keep them from harm. I will not be made a liar.

Mace flipped up a thumb. "You think being armed and ruthless means you can do whatever you want." He folded his thumb and flipped up his forefinger. "You think nobody will stand up to you when they're naked." He folded that one again and flipped up the next. "And you think you're going to look inside my bag."