Star Wars Quotes

“Through power we gain victory, and through victory our chains are broken. But power is only a means to an end.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“He raised his gaze to the ecliptic. The answers were out there, coded in light, speeding through space and time. Liquid fire coursing through him, visions of past and future riffling through his mind, he opened himself to the reconfigured galaxy, as if in an effort to peel away the decades”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“Plagueis kept his thoughts to himself. The aptly named Darth Bane,”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Glaciers and volcanoes both have the potential to transform landscapes, but one does so by burying what lies beneath, where the other spews forth new terrain.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“The Jedi Order’s homespun cloaks announced: I want for nothing, because I am clothed in the Force; the cloaks of the Sith: I am the light in the dark, the convergence of opposing energies.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“Sidious rejected outrage and intimidation for rankled curiosity. “Is this the point where I’m expected to ask why I’ve been abducted?”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Dooku chose his next words carefully. “Qui-Gon returned from Tatooine with a former slave boy. According to the boy’s mother, the boy had no father.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“We serve nature’s purpose by culling the herd, and our own by sharpening our skills. We are the predatory swarm!”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“For the Jedi, Mastery was conferred when one attained a true understanding of the ways of the Force; for the Sith, that level of understanding was merely the beginning. The Jedi Order’s homespun cloaks announced: I want for nothing, because I am clothed in the Force; the cloaks of the Sith: I am the light in the dark, the convergence of opposing energies. And yet, while all Sith Lords were powerful, not all were brilliant or in complete possession of the powers the dark side granted them. Darth Millennial had rebelled against the teachings of his Master, Darth Cognus, and even Plagueis spoke of having reached a philosophical impasse with his Master, Tenebrous.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“Palpatine laughed without merriment. “What could you possibly have to offer someone like me?” “Just this.” She opened the soft shoulder bag to reveal a humanoid infant of less than a standard year in age. The infant’s hairless head was stippled with an array of short but still pliant horns, and its entire body had been garishly and ceremonially tattooed in red and black pigments.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“Success doesn’t come from summoning help from the Force, but from taking control of it and generating the power from within yourself.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“And of what possible use do you think a person of your nature would be to the Jedi Order? You’re heartless, ambitious, arrogant, insidious, and without shame or empathy. More, you’re a murderer.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“Usted y sus compañeros son larvas en competición cruel por un suministro limitado de hongos.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Palpatine suppressed an urge to leap across the desk and strangle him.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“At long last, Plagueis told himself, the mantle is conferred.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Rarely did events play out as imagined, in any case. The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets. One could only act on instinct, grab hold of an intuited perfect moment, and spring into action. One heartbeat late and the universe would have recomposed itself, no imposition of will sufficient to forestall the currents. One could only observe and react. Surprise was the element absent from any periodic table. A keystone element; a missing ingredient. The means by which the Force amused itself. A reminder to all sentient beings that some secrets could never be unlocked.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Give order to the future by attending to it with your thoughts.
-Darth Plageuis”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Where Bith intelligence was grounded in mathematics and computation, Muun intelligence was driven by a will to profit.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“The order of future events was transient. In the same way that the past was reconfigured by selective memory, future events, too, were moving targets.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“Moral principles regarding natural selection seemed to be something they had left on the floor of what was now Kamino’s planetwide ocean, which perhaps explained why they were no more reluctant about providing game animals for Sojourn than they were about supplying shovel-handed clones to work in the mines of inhospitable Subterrel. Damask”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“As I told you on Naboo, Anakin,” he said finally, “we will continue to follow your career with great interest.” And assure that it culminates in the ruination of the Jedi Order and the reascendancy of the Sith!”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“What now?” Plagueis asked the moment Palpatine broke the connection. Sidious shook his head in disbelief. “Valorum somehow managed to persuade the Council to send two Jedi to Naboo.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Teem showed him a bitter smile. “Perhaps you had no direct hand in Kim’s death, but I suspect that you were complicit.” He paused, then added, “That little speech you gave in the Senate … I understand that it succeeded in attracting the attention of the Supreme Chancellor. Clearly you have all the makings of a career politician. Unfortunately, we plan to cut your career short.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Accompanying her were distinguished Jedi Masters Dooku and Sifo-Dyas, and a tall, powerfully built Jedi Knight named Qui-Gon Jinn, who remained standing while the rest took their designated seats at the circular table.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Plagueis nodded. “Darth Bane advised: One day the Republic will fall and the Jedi will be wiped out. But that will not happen until we are ready to seize that power for ourselves.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Already the galaxy had been shaped by the birth of one, and henceforth would be reshaped by the death of the other. But had the change been felt and recognized elsewhere? Were his sworn enemies aware that the Force had shifted irrevocably? Would it be enough to rouse them from self-righteousness? He hoped not. For now the work of vengeance could begin in earnest.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Blue-skinned, yellow-eyed bipeds from the far side of the Core had been the first to colonize Saleucami, which meant “oasis” in their tongue, for the world was just that among those they had visited during the long journey from Wroona. Since then had come hearty groups of Weequay, Gran, and Twi’leks, in flight from conflicts or in search of hardscrabble isolation, and up to the tasks of farming the colorless ground for moisture and subsisting on tasteless root crops that withered in the midday heat and froze solid at night. Eventually the planet had given rise to a city and a spaceport, constructed in the shadow of one of the calderas nourished by geothermal energy.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Abraxin had been strong in the dark side during Bane’s lifetime, when it had been aligned with Lord Kaan’s Brotherhood of Darkness, but Plagueis could sense that the power had waned significantly in the intervening centuries.”
― James Luceno, Star Wars: Darth Plagueis

“Plagueis pressed his right hand to the right side of his neck to discover that a disk had made off with a considerable hunk of his jawbone and neck, and in its cruel passing had severed his trachea and several blood vessels. He”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis

“Two lone Jedi are no match for thousands of battle droids and droidekas.”
― James Luceno, Darth Plagueis