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“at this, Lando choked back a sob, and started to cry, unable to hold it back any longer. Luke moved over to his friend, and they embraced, Lando burying his face in Luke’s shoulder.”
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“The Force... was a living thing, in the crudest terms an energy field that bound the universe together. The Force was not a power, not something to be wielded, or used, or manipulated. Rather, it was something that allowed others to share in it - a thing vast and alive and yet not sentient.”
- “Vader had been a fire, a twisting sun-dragon that curled in the core of a star about to go nova. The Emperor, Palpatine, had been the exact opposite – he was ice, the terrifying cold of the bottom of an endlessly deep ocean, the abyssal plain, no hope; a cold so absolute, so ultimate, that all life withered in its presence.”
- “this is how it ends, and it ends now, but at least Rey you are safe, and maybe one day you will remember me and you will remember your father, and fell our love for you forever, but now you are safe and you must be patient but you are safe, my love, you are safe, you are safe, you are safe, you are”
- “The Force did indeed move in mysterious ways. ‘Remember, my son,” said Anakin, his voice so far away, Luke could hardly hear it over the rush of blood in his ears, ‘no matter how dark the night may grow, you are never alone.”
- "Here they were, in an automated refueling dump for starships that could cross the galaxy, in a galaxy full of technological wonder and invention, and yet in some dark corner of that same galaxy there were things, objects – nothing more, nothing less – somehow imbued with dark power that was almost like magic.”
- “Hell has many names, Luke”