“At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface.” “Crash.” “Quite slowly.” Face & Luke”

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas.” “You haven’t heard all our ideas.” Luke & Bhindi Drayson

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.

I’m content to stand on tradition. I’m even more content to wipe my feet on it.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God’s domain?

When all else fails, complicate matters

That was interesting.” “He deliberately countermanded one of my orders.” “He was furtive.” “Sneaky, even.” “We’ll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet.” Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I’ll shoot him under the table.” Han (to Leia)

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.

Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

Definition of ‘Free’: You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

I don’t know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.

Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?

Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to.” “No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission.” “We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.

When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I’ve waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember.

When I got to the end the top was down.

The chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down.

As long as it doesn’t veer away from who I am, I’m down with it.

Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.

It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down.

I settled down in the full persuasion, that the immersion of a professing believer in Christ is the only Christian baptism.