| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 57cd612 | "Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization." -Vergere" | metaphor pain suffering fuel engine jacen-solo new-jedi-order new-republic post-return-of-the-jedi vergere yuuzhan-vong the-force traitor star-wars | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| f0f4492 | His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her, far away, alone in her apartment in the dark, a hand that felt the silken softness of her skin and the sleek coils of her hair, a hand that dissolved into a field of pure energy, of pure feeling that reached inside her-- And now he felt her, really felt her in the Force, as though she could have been some kind of Jedi, too, but more than that: he felt a bond, a connection, deeper and more intimate than he'd ever had before with anyone, even Obi-Wan; for a precious eternal instant he was her ... he was the beat of her heart and he was the motion of her lips and he was her soft words as though she spoke a prayer to the stars-- | lovers anidala padmé-amidala the-force star-wars intimacy | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| 371f66c | ...you must understand that not even the Jedi know all there is to be known about the Force; no mortal mind can. We speak of the as someone ignorant of gravity might say it is the will of a river to flow to the ocean; it is a metaphor that describes our ignorance. The simple truth - if any truth is ever simple - is that we do not truly know what the will of the Force may be. We can know. It is so far beyond our limited understanding that we can only surrender to its mystery. | metaphor truth old-ben simple-truth surrender-to-mystery the-force the-will-of-the-force obi-wan-kenobi jedi ignorance mystery | Matthew Woodring Stover | |
| 2d5c160 | Only on a planet such as Coruscant, with no forests left, no mountains unleveled, no streams left to run their own course, could the Force have become so clouded. | the-force yoda jedi star-wars | Sean Stewart |