~Jacen Solo Quotes~
"Uh, since I got us this far, I was hoping you could figure out the rest of the plan." - Jacen Solo, Shadow Academy
"Must be a sign of maturity."
"Who, me? Nah." - Jaina and Jacen Solo, The Lost Ones
"No, I was being stupid. I was so busy trying to impress you with my dueling skills that I didn't even notice when your lightsaber blade started to fratz out!" - Jacen Solo, Lightsabers
"Because that's not the truth of the Force. You keep thinking of it as a tool, a weapon in your war against everything you see as bad. But that's such a limiting philosophy." - Jacen Solo, Vector Prime
"If I use it, I'm miserable. If I don't, I'm sunk."- Jacen Solo, Balance Point
Jacen: "Am I worried about what's happening to us? Sure. This war is bringing out all that's selfish and wicked in the New Republic, corrupting the galaxy star by star. I see it pulling one Jedi after another to the dark side, making us fight to win instead of protect. But I can't push others down my path. Everyone needs to choose for themselves. Centerpoint taught me that much."
Anakin: "Fooled me."
Jacen: "Fooled myself. I thought I was the only one who knows the difference between right and wrong. I realized that wasn't true—actually, Tenel Ka pointed it out—after what I said on the Exquisite Death. I've been trying to apologize to you since."
- Jacen Solo and Anakin Solo, Star By Star
"You're not Anakin! You're not! Anakin would never talk like that! Anakin would never believe that! You're just a hallucination!"- Jacen Solo, Traitor
"I don't have much sense of humor these days." - Jacen Solo, Traitor
"You'll be unconscious in about fifteen seconds." - Jacen Solo, Traitor
"The Gifts of the True Gods are three. Life They give us, that we may serve Their Glory: this is the least of Their Gifts. Pain They give us, that we may learn Life's value lies only in Their Service: this is a greater Gift. But the Greatest Gift of the Gods is Death: it is Their Release from the Burden of Pain and the Curse of Life. It is their reward, their grace, their mercy, granted liberally even to the unjust and the infedel." - Jacen Solo, Traitor
"We've both been dead for a long time, Ganner. And today-Today is the day we stop breathing." - Jacen Solo, Traitor
~ Ben Skywalker Quotes~
"A Defender's Droid's not supposed to be dumber than her kid." - Ben Skywalker, The Joiner King
"Hello, Ben. I'm your cousin Jacen."
"I know you. You went away when I was two. Did you find it?"
"Some of it."
"So you're going back?"
"No. What I haven't found, I doubt I ever will."
- Jacen Solo and Ben Skywalker, The Joiner King
"You're a father? Astral!" - Ben Skywalker, The Unseen Queen
"I thought you were waiting with DeDe."
"You said you wanted me with you! You asked if I knew what to do!"
"I meant if there was trouble, Ben."
"Oh. I thought you meant to trip her circuit breaker."
- Jacen Solo and Ben Skywalker, The Unseen Queen
"That's a dumb reason. You never worry about anything." - Ben Skywalker, The Unseen Queen
"He said it was a practice weapon."
"It's true from a certain point of view. He does practice with it."
- Testan ke Harran and Jacen Solo referring to Ben, Betrayal
"Where are the secret chambers?"
"I don't quite understand, young sir."
"C'mon. Uncle Han is a smuggler, I bet this place is stuffed with secret chambers. They'll all have blasters in them. Some of them will have indenticards in fake names, and creditcards, and electronics gear, and maybe a disassembled scoutspeeder. Some of them will be hidey-holes for the Noghri."
"I can assure you, sir, that there are no secret chambers."
"Aha! I assure you isn't the same thing as There are no. C'mon, Threepio, say 'There are no secret chambers.'"
"I can assure you, sir, that there are-"
"Aha!"
"I say, sir, must every generation of Solos and Skywalkers act like this?"
- Ben Skywalker and See-Threepio, Betrayal
"Now you're making fun of me."
"You're getting so good at what you do, if we don't make fun of you, you'll have a colossal, Lando Calrissian-sized ego."
"That would be fun. Hello. I'm Ben Skywalker."
"Oh, that's ghastly."
"And I'm trying to figure out whether I'm more suave or more debonair. Maybe you can help."
"Stop it."
"I'll pour the wine, and you tell me what you like best about me."
"Jacen, now he talks too much..."
- Ben Skywalker, Jacen Solo, and Nelani Dinn, Betrayal
"Oh. I hope I don't blow up this time. ....I'm going to blow up again, aren't I?"
"Probably."
- Ben Skywalker and Jacen Solo, Betrayal
"Okay, I don't understand how you could hurt that woman so badly. You're not a bad person. You don't like violence. It scares me, because I don't think I could ever do that and that means we're different, and I wanted to be just like you and now I'm not sure."
"I can understand that. And we all have to find out for ourselves how far we can go and what we're prepared to do. You won't know until you have to do it."
- Ben Skywalker and Jacen Solo, Bloodlines
"Did Jacen teach you that?"
"Come on, Dad. Playing dead is pretty basic stuff."
- Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker, Tempest
"You know-when you use someone innocent to put out false intelligence. Only this way, you're collecting the information from someone innocent, and since she doesn't know what's happening, she's her own cutout, too. It's a perfect setup against someone like Tenel Ka." - Ben Skywalker, Tempest
"My apology. I apologized, but you didn't accept it. You just used it as an excuse to keep being rude. You have the manners of a bantha with digestion problems. If you had children, I hope they were raised by piranha-beetles so they'd be nicer than you." - Ben Skywalker, Exile
"Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad. For my fourteenth birthday, I killed a little girl." - Ben Skywalker, Exile
"It's not personal. Hey, I tried to arrest Uncle Han because it was my job. I didn't mean him any harm." - Ben Skywalker, Sacrifice
"With all due respect sir, you can shove that order down the nearest black hole. You're the one who turned me into a killer." - Ben Skywalker, Inferno
"It's your funeral!"- Ben Skywalker, Inferno
"No way! This kill is mine!" - Ben Skywalker, Inferno
"Your feelings betray you, Ben."
"Betray me? Do they stab me in the back, or do they just give me a swift kick in the butt?"
- Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker, Fury
"Wrong is one of those relative things. If I think something is wrong and you think it's right, which one of us is correct?" - Ben Skywalker, Fury
"That's what attachment is, isn't it? It's not loving somebody. It's not marrying somebody. It's not having kids. It's being where, if something goes wrong, there's nothing left of you." - Ben Skywalker, Fury
"Ever since Mom was killed, you've been like someone with a landspeeder resting on his back. Crushed flat, hardly able to move because of the pain." - Ben Skywalker, Fury
"What do you do with a deposed dictator? A Sith too? And if dad manages to sort him out, bring him back to the light side, how can I even be in the same room as him after what he's done?" - Ben Skywalker, Revelation
"Ben, you're middle-aged! Captain Sensible! Overnight!"
"I still reserve the right to revert to being a goofy kid and not tidy my room when the pressure's off."
- Jagged Fel and Ben Skywalker, Revelation
"You wouldn't be trying to seduce me, would you?" - Ben Skywalker, Invincible
"I don't think I've ever seen so many brown robes together in one place. It's like a showroom for the world's dullest textile factory." - Ben Skywalker, Outcast
"Postflight checklist."
"Oh. Engines cooling within standard rates. I notice there's no one here."
"No one here, check."
"Running engine diagnostics now. And the hangar doors are...Locked. We're locked in."
"Locked in, check."
"Stop that."
- Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker, Outcast
"What's one of the first things you learned in training to become a Jedi?"
"Don't cut off your own head with a lightsaber."
"After that."
"Your eyes can deceive you. Be mindful of your feeling. Girls are fun but dangerous. Lando has extra cards up his sleeve."
"Well, the truth is in there somewhere..."
- Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker, Outcast
"Ben, what is our purpose as Jedi?"
"Well...to keep the Force in balance and to help people stay in balance with the Force. To detect wrongs and make them right. To serve as models for very attractive lines of boots."
"Let's go back one."
- Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker, Outcast
"We're choosing new names?"
"No."
"Oh. That's sad. I was looking forward to being Sparky."
"Sounds like a name for a monkey-lizard."
"And you could be Grand Master Whango Mittphool."
"Not in this lifetime."
- Ben Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, Outcast
"What did you learn today, Dad?"
"I learned to make a ball float at a constant altitude, but not make it be still."
"You had an exciting day."
- Ben Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, Outcast
"These...these are the journals. It looks as though what Car'das was permitted to bring back with him was just the barest fraction of what he learned."
"Maybe. Or maybe it's just filled with ramblings along the lines of Get me away from the rock creatures with the tongues."
- Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker, Omen
"Jedi Skywalkers. Practicing a fine family tradition of rescuing people from the dark side."
"Hey, there are worse family traditions."
"Like Aunt Leia's spiceloaf."
"You think the dark side is scary, you say that to her."
"I won't. I like my body intact, thank you very much."
- Ben Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, Omen
"You're a legend, Anakin. Your sacrifice saved the Jedi. There hasn't been another Jedi Knight as strong as you since." - Ben Skywalker, Abyss
"No problem, Jacen. Have a peaceful....whatever." - Ben Skywalker, Abyss
"She's the conversational equivalent of a monkey-lizard on too much caf. Here, there, everywhere, and it's impossible to pin her down." - Ben Skywalker, Backlash
"I have our tactic."
"Yes?"
"When the rocks fall, we get out of the way."
- Ben Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, Backlash
"After lunch, I think I'm going to start asking new questions."
"And when someone asks you to talk to her among the Trees of Imminent Doom?"
"I say yes, and close my eyes and pucker up for a big kiss?"
"There, that's the Skywalker survival instinct at work."
- Ben Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, Backlash
"A Jedi without a lightsaber-"
"Is a lot less dashing to the girls."
"Not what I was going to say, but probably true."
- Luke Skywalker and Ben Skywalker, Backlash
"Good morning."
"If you say so."
"You don't think it is?"
"Whether it's good or not isn't relevant."
- Vestara Khai and Ben Skywalker, Backlash
"But you are awfully formal."
"And you aren't."
"No. Dad likes to say I get my mouth from my Mom."
- Ben Skywalker and Vestara Khai, Allies
"I should have killed you when I had the chance."
"You didn't. Have a chance, I mean."
- Vestara Khai and Ben Skywalker, Vortex
"Oh, but this is nothing like Dagobah, where mold rotted everything, duraplast included, and did it stink. Even my lightsaber blade stank. Food Stank. Yoda stank. Distilled water stank, I'm not sure how." - Ben Skywalker, Conviction
"My dad neglects and abuses me."
"True, and when you become a father, you'll discover how much fun that is."
- Ben Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, Conviction
"Great, Dad. Should I open the top hatch and hurl rocks at it?" - Ben Skywalker, Conviction
"Yeah, you are. I would be, too. You're about to meet a whole bunch of people who not long ago were your sworn enemies and say, Hi there, I used to be a Sith but not anymore. It's okay because I'm dating the most amazing, best-looking, smartest Jedi in the-ow!" - Ben Skywalker, Ascension