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Quotes from John Jackson Miller

All life is sacred. Even life that comes in forms that we don't understand." - Obi-Wan Kenobi
~ John Jackson Miller
I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.
~ John Jackson Miller
But seeing and doing nothing isn't the worst thing," Hera had said. "The worst thing is to see and not to care.
~ John Jackson Miller
There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate.
~ John Jackson Miller
Things that seem permanent, a given, have a way of changing quickly, to something you don't recognize. And not all change is for the better.
~ John Jackson Miller
The galaxy is full of creatures that are nothing like us at all. We can try to understand them, and we should. But even if we accept that they're doing what comes naturally, one is not beholden to comply when the sarlacc asks for dinner.
~ John Jackson Miller
Or maybe it's time for people to be their own Jedi. They weren't gods — just people like us, who saw a need. If they could find a way, I'm sure we can.
~ John Jackson Miller
The Jedi had always preached against forming connections, to prevent their acolytes from putting too much value in any one relationship. In so doing, they had unwittingly trained their students to be the perfect fugitives, able to cut and run at any moment. As long as they didn't stop to care, they could go on indefinitely.
~ John Jackson Miller
It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.
~ John Jackson Miller
I need you to fly like a Wookiee whose hair is on fire – and who thinks everybody lit the match.
~ John Jackson Miller
That's why the Emperor needs an Empire, Kanan. It's like a space slug, whose only function is to stay alive. It's got to consume, and consume, and consume.
~ John Jackson Miller
In theory, say you did have thousands of people—no, thousands of systems—enraged at a hypothetical Galactic Empire in a faraway galaxy. But they're all upset over local matters, over particular grievances, and they never get together on anything. So they get no strength in numbers, no strategic advantages from cooperation. They're easy to divide and conquer. And worst of all, no common spirit ever develops.
~ John Jackson Miller
But the Jedi had a saying about fear. It leads, ultimately, to suffering." Hera paused. "Someone has to break the chain.
~ John Jackson Miller
A life that seems small on the outside can be limitless on the inside.
~ John Jackson Miller
All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics.
~ John Jackson Miller
Why do I always have to be right?
~ John Jackson Miller
The Jedi Order was more than an unpaid police force, more than just an exercise club that was into metaphysics. It was a way of life, based on the Jedi Code—and a lot of rules for living that weren't in the Code, that had been tacked on later. One was that Jedi avoided becoming involved in romantic relationships. Once on the run, Kanan Jarrus had found that rule pretty easy to forget about.
~ John Jackson Miller
A starship is a weapon, but it's the crew that makes it deadly.
~ John Jackson Miller
Travel light, and death will never find you.
~ John Jackson Miller
The mind is a dynamo in the dark, an engine endlessly running, powering nothing. It thrashes in the night, seeking daylight, inventing its own.
~ John Jackson Miller
You people snicker at me and my histories. But history is important. It can be a weapon --for both sides." -Grand Lord Hilts
~ John Jackson Miller
Kanan thumped his chest. "I'm a man with a mission." "You're an oaf with a delusion.
~ John Jackson Miller
Then go faster. But don't go stupid.
~ John Jackson Miller
I don't take orders from you." Then Skelly looked out the landing bay entrance at Cynda. He winked. "I saved you, sweetheart!" He pushed the button.
~ John Jackson Miller