Quotes from Timothy Zahn

Había aprendido mucho tiempo atrás que sobreestimar las capacidades del enemigo podía ser tan peligroso como subestimarlas. Era una lección que debería recordar de nuevo.

Intent and motivations are irrelevant, Judgment can focus only on actions.

Too many people, possibly even the majority of them, were all too content to let others do that thinking and analysis for them.

Thrawn's unique ability to read a species' deepest psychological core by studying its artwork was one of his greatest strengths, enabling him to anticipate his opponents' moves right down to their likely battlefield tactics. New allies seeing it demonstrated for first time inevitably reacted with surprise, awe, or disbelief.

I think it's more likely that Master C'baoth is insane." It was possibly the first time Luke

She moved closer to him and took his hand. But that's just profit and loss games again. The simple, bottom-line fact is that this is the right path for us. Like that Qom Jha proverb Builder With Vines quoted at us in the caverns, the one about many vines woven together being stronger than the same number used separately. We compliment each other perfectly, Luke, all the way down the line. In many ways, we're two halves of a single being.

each other for a whole month; and we

This was the New Jedi Order, and he and Mara were walking together in as perfect a harmony with each other and with the Force as he could ever expect. The Force will be with you always Mara, he murmured in her ear. And so will I.

grass-filled flight

what is remembered says a great deal about those doing the remembering." For

At the city, at the clouds . . . and, in his mind's eye

his expression set in that neutral mask so beloved by prosecutors eyeing potential witnesses, or lions checking out a herd of elk.

complete with driving winds and a sky nearly black enough to turn the twilight of the city and surrounding countryside into full night.

God had given mankind intellect, one of my teachers had once said, and the Fall had given him prejudice; and there was no human force more dangerous than a combination of the two.

I don't think anyone ever goes into a war without the nagging feeling that there might have been some other way.

If di-Master Strinni knew any sort of sign language, it would be the Human variety.

Yesterday, the Chimaera's crew had trusted and respected the Grand Admiral. After today, they would be ready to die for him. And for the first time in five years, Pellaeon finally knew in the deepest level of his being that the old Empire was gone. The new Empire, with Grand Admiral Thrawn at its head, had been born.

The maitrakh met her gaze steadily, her alien face unreadable. 'Are you offering me your help?' Leia asked. 'There is honor in you, Lady Vader,' the maitrakh said, her voice quiet. 'For the life and honor of my thirdson, I will go with you. Perhaps we will die together.' Leia nodded, her heart aching. 'Perhaps we will.

of his. The same earnestness that had stopped her from killing that insane Joruus C'baoth back on Jomark.

Once you make a decision, you can never go back and change it. Sometimes, farther down the line, you have a chance to alter its effects. But the original decision is there forever.

unpleasant feeling settling in

Takes a pretty confident person to think he can beat modern turbolasers with blaster cannons, though. Thrawn shrugged. I could. Right, but you're on our side, Eli said drily.

There are patterns in imperial communications, as there are in everything else. Once the pattern is known, knowledge is easier to obtain.

Perhaps you hadn't noticed, but there appears to be a growing number of these incidents