Quotes from Michael Reaves

called?—who'd been self-aware enough to play sabacc and gloat over the winnings. It had had a sarcastic circuit a klick wide. Uli

In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory .

You could only to your best, and hope for a strong tail wind to waft you faster to your destination. Until then, you played the game, kept your tongue civil, and spoke favorably of your enemies when either they or their spies might overhear.

And are you unquestionably certain your haecceity is defined by your moniker?

one of the fun things about being a scientist is being able to make up new words)

Minimize expectations to avoid being disappointed.

Whether a man bows down to God or Mammon or to Cthulhu in his dark house at R'lyeh is no affair of mine . . . until he sheds one drop of blood not his own in his deity's name. Then God have mercy upon him, for I shall not.

My cheeks were burning like those of a squirrel hoarding jalapeños

And concepts rejected when they came from someone else often looked better when rethought as one's own. Even the Emperor, it seemed, was not immune to that particular hubris.

Hey, I don't make the rules, I just work here. You have a complaint, take it up with the Emperor.

But the reality was that there was only the Force. It was above such petty concepts as positive and negative, black and white, good and evil. The only difference worthy of note was this: The Jedi saw the Force as an end in itself; the Sith knew that it was a means to an end. And that end was Power.

As it sometimes happened, the good suffered for the faults of the bad.

We can never know everything," Holmes said, "but I fear that everything knows us.

Peace is found neither in hot blood nor in cold sweat," Nova said.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." —H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu

Even the humblest of beings contains within himself a universe of infinite diversity and wonder. Therefore, when you give aid and comfort to just one being, you are, for that moment, the deity of an entire cosmos.

Goodly intentions are no use without goodly sums of money, Watson.

Those eyes, hidden deep in that hooded cloak, could penetrate subterfuge and dissimulation as easily as X-rays penetrated flesh and illuminated the bones for all to see.

I think this galaxy would be a whole lot nicer and more pleasant place to live if we all just stop killing one another. Who's with me on this?" A few chuckles and a couple of faux cheers were the response. "You're a visionary," I-Five told him. "Float it past Palpatine, see what he thinks," Uli suggested.

She was called Victoria because she had beaten us in battle seven hundred years before, and she was called Gloriana because she was glorious, and she was called the Queen because the human mouth was not shaped to say her true name.

I-Five had both hands up, the index fingers extended, like a child pretending to point a pair of blasters.

He was nursing a particularly potent concoction of spicebrew, Sullustan gin, and Old Janx Spirit called a Sonic Servodriver;

There are stranger seas, you see, than the seven on which we sail. There are greater oceans than the five we have named. There are seas of infinity and oceans of eternity, and their salt is the bitterest brine that creation can contain. The dreams you know are but phantoms . . . ghosts with no more substance than rhyme or reason . . . but there are dreams of the flesh, Mr. Holmes. I have done nothing of which I need to be ashamed, and yet . . . I cannot help but dream.

To surrender to callousness or despair in the face of such sorrow was to be revealed as its accomplice.