Quotes from Karen Miller

Space and time blurred and the void filled with explosions and shards and narrow misses and voices in the Force: his pilots, laughing and swearing and howling to their deaths. He laughed and swore and howled along with them, the silence unbearable. Kill, kill, and kill again, slaughter the starfighters, slaughter the Tuskens, every loss is the same loss, every pain springs from one source. Save Kothlis, save Coruscant, save Padmé. Save them all.

Et tu, Jaffa?

kneel Your Grace, he said curtly, Unless you presume to tell a man of God that he may also fuck himself? Rhian nearly lost her balance, coming off the last dais step.

A few brief, paltry kisses after so long apart, it wasn't enough. It was a single sip of water offered to a man dying of thirst. He hungered

There was a friggin' sandstorm in Saudi Arabia.

I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.

Abruptly excusing himself

Should any of us be desperate enough to find our own solution and dare to take action, we would have been pronounced to be the lowest of all disobedient wives

You could toast marshmallows on the warmth of his regard.

Letting go of rational thought, he surrendered himself to instinct, to the odd quirk within that made him one with machines. The same quirk that had melded him almost effortlessly with his prosthetic limb and perhaps was the reason he'd lost none of his connection with the Force, even though his arm and hand were made of metal.

There was no best about any of this. There was only what they could do at any given moment.

She pulled a face.

have access to all our dirty linen.

Have fun playing with your artefacts.

Peas were for pussies. Real soldiers used mashed potato. With extra gravy.

Obi-Wan stared after him. This is a test. The Force is testing me. Twelve years of Qui-Gon, ten years of Anakin, and now I get him.

Must the Jedi Temple itself fall before it can be agreed that the Jedi are also paying a price for this war we did not start?

Being crazy is not a pre-requisite for joining black ops." "No," said Daniel, thoughtfully. "But I think it helps.