Traitor
Matthew Woodring Stover
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization." -Vergere”
“What distinguishes a flower from a weed is only—and exactly—this: the choice of the gardener”
“No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain”
“When you fight fanatics, all you do is make them even more fanatic than they were when they started.”
“It has to do with a bizarre concept called democracy, in which ruling power is given to whoever is most skillful at directing the herd instincts of the largest masses of their most ignorant citizens—”
“Before one can learn truth, one must unlearn lies.”
“Sometimes pain is the only bridge to where you want to go.”
“For the Jedi, combat is failure.”
“Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization. Now he begins to understand: because pain is a god—he has been in the grip of this cruel god ever since Anakin’s death. But it is also a teacher, and a bridge. It can be a slave master, and break you—and it can be the power that makes you unbreakable. It is all these things, and more. At the same time. What it is depends on who you are. But who am I? he wonders. I’ve been running like Dad—like Anakin. I think they stopped, though; I think Dad was strong enough to turn back and face it, to use the pain to make himself stronger, like Mom and Uncle Luke. Anakin did, too, at the end. Am I that strong? There’s only one way to find out.”
“Instead of working with what is, they keep trying to force everything to be what they think it should be. That’s”
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