Quotes of Troy Denning

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“Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker” ― Troy Denning, Star by Star
“Ben: "Gorog's no assassin! She's my best friend." Mara: "She's an insect, Ben." Ben: "So? Your best friend's a lizard." Mara: "Don't be ridiculous. Aunt Leia is my best friend." Ben: "Doesn't count. She's family. Saba is a lizard." Mara: "Okay, maybe my best friend's a lizard.” ― Troy Denning, The Joiner King
“Han?”“Yeah, sweetie.”“How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?”“I don’t know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them.”“I’ll consider that.” ― Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible
“He stands alone in hollow gloom, with the sound of his own breath whispering down unseen passages ahead and behind and to both sides, wondering how he stumbled into this blackest of all labyrinths.He entered by choice. We all do. Whether we are mapping the heavens or skulking the lanes of the underworld, whether we are hunting the imprisoned fiend or have ourselves become the monster, whether we are searching for what is lost or hiding what must never be found, we all round that first corner by choice - and by then, we are lost.You too. You must decide what is false and what is true, and what is true for me but not for you. We are wandering the mazes, all of us, and we cannot hope to escape until we learn to tell between what is real and what is real for someone else. There lies the madness, and the truth as well.” ― Troy Denning, Pages of Pain
“Saba: "You want this one to guide you?" Leia: "If you would consider it." Saba: "This one?" Leia: "Yes. I want someone who will challenge me in unexpected ways. I want someone who will teach me what I don't know.” ― Troy Denning, The Joiner King
“The hoverlanes were murder.” ― Troy Denning
“Han: “Someone ought to make armor out of those bugs.”Leia: “Han! They’re sentient beings!”Han: “Fair is fair. If they get to wear it, so should we.”- Han and Leia Solo” ― Troy Denning, The Swarm War
“Your brother kills you." Fett hopped tpo his feet as lightly as any unarmoured jedi apprentice, the n added," Some things are worsse thean death. I know that better than anyone, except maybe Sintas-and Han Solo. Send your father my sympathies.” ― Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible
“And so we place the burden of remaining pure on lesser shoulders? … Do you really believe the Jedi should be the tools of such frail [government] institutions?”- Jacen Solo” ― Troy Denning, The Joiner King
“Can't a Jedi Knight express himself around here anymore?" -Jacen"Of course, but half a dozen times should be sufficient." - Luke” ― Troy Denning, The Swarm War
“What, exactly, are you doing here?""We're trying to prevent a war. Isn't that what Jedi are supposed to do?" ―Mara Jade Skywalker and Alema Rar” ― Troy Denning, The Joiner King
“Vergere taught me to embrace my pain by surrendering to it. I made that pain a part of me--something I would never fight or deny. You have to do the same thing with your fear, Uncle Luke. Then it will have no power over you." - Jacen” ― Troy Denning, The Swarm War
“Then who do we answer to? Ourselves?""Of course. Who else can we trust to wield our power? We must follow our own consciences."- Corran and Jacen” ― Troy Denning, The Joiner King
“Hello, Ben. I'm your cousin Jacen.""I know you." You went away when I was two. Did you find it?"Some of it""So you're going back?""No. What I haven't found, I doubt I ever will." ―Jacen and Ben” ― Troy Denning, The Joiner King
“There you have it. We go in General Celchu’s shuttle.”“Much as I personally want you to succeed in this, I sort of have to say no. Duty and officer’s oaths and all that. You understand.”“Oh, that’s right.” Luke turned to Wedge. “Could I trouble you to set your blaster on stun and point it at the other general?”“No, not really.”“Please?”Wedge sighed. “I’m not going to point a blaster at my best friend. Plus, his pilot will be obliged to jump in the way or do something equally noble and foolish. I’m not going to point a blaster at my little girl.”“Thank you, Daddy.” ― Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Invincible
“The New Republic? Are you blind? There is no New Republic! It died before the Yuuzhan Vong came!"Leia Organa Solo” ― Troy Denning, Star by Star
“It was the perfect set. Theseus gave a great war cry and brought his sword arcing up toward Sheba’s throat - but the monster of the labyrinth lives inside us all. She is the dark, devouring hunger that is never sated, the creeping shadow that ever plays the fiend to our seraphim, the secret rage hidden in our hearts; deny her, and we become her slaves; fight her, and we make her invincible. By now, you must know that no monster can ever be killed, not really - […]” ― Troy Denning, Pages of Pain
“Leia: 'Han, what have we done?'Han: 'The same thing we always have, Princess. What we had to.'--Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo” ― Troy Denning, Legacy of the Force: Inferno
“My parents are terrorist scum, and that is why I have turned my back on them.” The” ― Troy Denning, Tempest
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