Hello Everyone!

I recently finished reading Traitor from the New Jedi Order series, and it immediately became my #1 favourite Star Wars book (or any book, for that matter) of all time. As I was reading, I compiled a list of quotes from both Jacen, Vergere, and the narration that I thought were either clever or very meaningful. So here they are... let's see if you agree with me!

"Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever chagnes back. That you can't go home again." (128)

"Nothing lasts forever. The only permanence is death." (129)

"He [Jacen] hated the universe. Hated everything about it: all the pointless suffering and empty death and all the stupid mindless mechanical useless laws and all the squirming blood-smeared ignorant life, hated the stony flesh under his feet and the air that he breathed, hated himself, hated even the hate he felt and suddenly he wasn't tired anymore, he wasn't confused anymore, everyting was simple, everythig was easy, everything made sense because hate was everything and everything was hate, and he didn't want to die anymore." (179)

"Call it the Universe, or the Force, or Existence: those are only words. They are half truths. Less. They are lies. The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it." (271-2)

"But he knew this: life is more a matter of choosing than of knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step." (284)

"He remembered that he didn't have to know what he was. All he had to do was decide." (283)

"He would never really know - could never really know - much of anything. Truth is elusive, and questions are more useful than answers." (284)

"'Does killing a dhuryam for a noble goal make it any less dead?'" (Vergere, 124)

"'If the Force is life, how can there be life without the Force?'" (Vergere, 66)

"'Everything I tell you is a lie.'" (Vergere, 26)

"Within this universe, there are traitors. One is a teacher, and a student; another is a student, and a teacher. One is a gardener. This universe falls toward another, wider universe: a universe that is a garden - which is still full of weeds." (292)

"'It is a hard universe. [...] No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain.'" (Vergere, 291)

"'The Yuuzhan Vong are fanatics. For the, everyting is Right or Wrong, Honorable or Evil, Truth or Blasphemy. When you fight fanatics, all you do is make them even more fanatic than they were when they started.'" (Jacen, 290)

May the Force be with you, Always, and see you at the Clone Wars premiere!!