Quotes from Christie Golden

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

But that is how one learns, is it not? By trying and failing?

but we cannot go back to happier times. We can only live in the present, and right now that present is painful.

You can't say it's a fair way to determine right or wrong one day, and then say it's unfair the next because you don't like the outcome.

My actions should depend on what I know, not what I suspect.

All things change, whether from inside out or the outside in. That is what magic is. And we are magic too.

Ner'zhul... Gul'dan. Two of the darkest names ever to sully the history of my people. And yet, Drek'thar tells me that once Ner'zhul was admired, even beloved, and truly cared for the people whos spiritual leader he was. It is hard to reconcile those words with what Ner'zhul has become, but I try. I try because I want to understand. And yet, try as I might... I do not.

I wanted what we had. What we were going to have. Together. We had a future.

We are, all of us, our own phoenixes, if we choose to be. Out of the ashes, we can be reborn.

There is no emotion, there is peace. There is no ignorance, there is knowledge. There is no passion, there is serenity. There is no chaos, there is harmony. There is no death, there is the Force.

One can not always believe what one hears.

It may make him overconfident. He may make foolish errors.

And now, it's too late, and I will never stop grieving that. But I'm on the path, Asajj. You bought my chance with blood, and I won't waste it, I swear I won't. Every day, every minute of my life, I'll live it. For me, and for you. I'll fight, because you can't, and I'll laugh, and I'll do everything I possibly can with everything I have in me to make things better, because this galaxy has seen too much of darkness.

But it is the mark of a leader, to hold all possibilities, even the unpleasant—even the unthinkable.

There are many paths open to us at all times, Jaina. As leaders of those who trust us, we owe it to them to examine every one.

Each life, a flame in the Force is. Beautiful. Unique. Glowing and precious, it stands, to bravely cast its own small light against the darkness that would consume it." Yoda

And you will forgive me too, one day, Asajj Ventress." He hesitated, and took a breath. "That's what you do for…for the one you love.

Yes. I had misgivings from the beginning about this entire enterprise. I still believe that sending a Jedi to assassinate a man was wrong. And I fear that I will likely lose not only a fellow Jedi Master, but someone I consider a friend, and we will have nothing to show for such a loss.

The paths of Fate are many and varied,and no sane being should ever venture down the deceptively pleasant one of if only.What happened,happened;

me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life—it's not worth living.

He welcomed challenges; they kept him sharp, showed that he was approachable, and oftentimes made him explore avenues previously unthought-of.

This was how one should be welcomed home. With the happy cries of children and family, with the blessings of the natural world.

There are things you must do before that peace will be granted to you. Things that you must understand, that you must integrate into yourself. People who need your help. What one needs in order to heal will always come one's way, but sometimes it can be hard to recognize it. Sometimes the most beautiful and important gifts come wrapped in pain and blood.