Quotes from Michael A. Stackpole

The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

You saw this as a travesty because, by marrying Mara, I was taking an important icon from you. But this is about starting a new life, not ending an old one.

I know there are many things you want to know. Shall I start at the beginning or the end? The middle world not be so good a place, but I could start there. But that would make the middle the beginning, wouldn't it?

A Two-Onebee droid doesn't need to contract a disease to diagnose and treat it.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

Those who can't be loyal never believe when others are

When you hear hoof beats, think horses before you think zebras.

The garden, by its artistry and resonance, touched him deeply, peeling away layers of emotion and inner conflicts.

If we go out there thinking we're invulnerable, we'll get stupid. Stupid people die, and all too often, they take friends with them.

Jedi breathing exercise Luke Skywalker had urged upon me when trying to recruit me as a Jedi. Breathing in through my nose to a count of four, I held the breath for a seven count, then exhaled in eight beats.

I am Kai Allard-Liao. I am a killer of men.

the laugh seemed to suggest, anyone who thought destruction was more powerful than creation was a fool.

Time to remind them that trapping a Rogue doesn't make him dead, just deadlier. -Corran Horn

And now she has no more later, and there seems little reason in having a later without her.

Tonin decided that it might be a good thing to be the King of the Droids. He was now a mighty leader, in command of hundreds of utility droids aboard Iron Fist.

Yes, sir. I think this plan is marginally better than dying of asphyxiation or starvation out in empty space, and it has the virtue of novelty. Implacable couldn't anticipate we'd do it. Only crazy people could anticipate we'd do it.

This is not for me a memory. It is a portrait of now. Of a state of being of the world.' He slowly bowed his head. 'And of freedom, for change. It portends coming change. Crushing of enemies, perhaps; a coming winter, most like. But as you will never brew exactly this brew again, so the world will never again know this time or, alas, this peace.

I have nothing against kids—as long as they go home with their parents at the end of the day.

This is the purpose of life, is it not? To create life is the greatest act a living creature can commit.

selflessness is the only antidote to evil. It provides the light that destroys the dark.

Then, my friend, let the songs be sung as Zandalari lamentations. He stood and started down the mountain. Let them be sung for a thousand generations and serenade us into eternity.

a bold MechWarrior is one who manages to survive his own stupidity, and a hero is a bold MechWarrior who survives rescuing other bold MechWarriors from even greater stupidity.

When the only tool that you have is a hydrospanner, every problem looks like something that needs to be torqued.

What we must do now is create ourselves—not re-create, but create. This is why it is cruel. When we first did this, we had all the energy of youth. We did not know that attaining our dreams would be impossible—we just went out and got them. Innocence shielded us. Enthusiasm and unflagging confidence got us through. But now we have none of that. Now we are old, wiser, tired.