Rogue One Quotes

“You don’t mind that the war will go on and on?”
“Palpatine could have prevented it. Now it’s up to people like you to end it.”
Tarkin nodded. “And so we shall.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“Normalcy has taken leave of the galaxy.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples. Dig a hole deep enough on any world and you’ll find the skulls and bones of adults and children fractured by crude weapons. All of us were fighting long before we were farming and raising livestock.”
He held up a hand before anyone could voice an objection. “All of you are exceedingly well educated, and you’re going to start rattling off the names of species and societies where that isn’t the case. And my answer is that those aren’t the beings or the star systems we need to worry about. It’s the rest of them. Violence is hardwired into most of us and there’s no eliminating the impulse—not with an army of stormtroopers or a fleet of Star Destroyers. That’s why we’ve embarked on a path to a different solution. We have a chance to forge a peace that will endure for longer than the Republic was in existence.”
“Peace through fear,” Reeva said.
“Yes,” Krennic told her, and let it go at that.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“There was an art to learning what individuals were made of, to analyzing how they were put together, and then—when the moment was right—lining them up just so and driving the point home, breaking them along predicted lines; faceting them like one of Galen’s kybers. Obitt one way, Tarkin the other.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“Did it work?”
“Did what work?”
“Defiance. Was that enough?”
“That wasn’t the point.”
“What was?”
“Believing that your actions mattered, and believing that a good end would come of them, even if you didn’t live to see the results.”
Has snorted. “Cheery thought. Throw dirt in your enemy’s face, get crushed underfoot.”
Saw stopped what he was doing and walked over to him. “Look at it this way, Has. If we can persuade enough people to start throwing dirt…”
Realizing that he was supposed to finish the thought, Has considered it, then said: “Eventually we bury them.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“I refuse to live my life under terms dictated by the Empire.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“I guess research isn’t for everyone.”
“Certainly not for the faint of heart or the unfaithful.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“My colleagues,” Galen said, “many of them, have fooled themselves into thinking they are creating something so terrible and powerful it will never be used. But they’re wrong. No weapon has ever been left on the shelf. And the day is coming soon when it will be unleashed.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“She looked like she’d stepped out of her own cremation to take vengeance on the world that had done her wrong.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“He gazed around in near despair. Where he had never had an issue with so-called free time, he was suddenly lost without his research; torn between uncompromising tenderness for Lyra and Jyn and a sense of burden in being able to provide a flawless future for them.
The Vallt he missed no longer existed; nor did the Coruscant he and Lyra had left more than a standard year earlier. Despite the changes war had brought to the Core it might still be possible for them to ride out the conflict here. Even if it meant avoiding HoloNet news reports and steering clear of conversations about war and politics. Surely they could manage that much. Perhaps the war would end as abruptly as it had begun and life would return to normal—or at least to what had been considered normal beforehand.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“What hope is there for freelancers like myself if the Empire is determined to vanquish every independent system?” he said. Glancing at Saw, Molo, and Yalli, he added: “All of us will end up Imperial employees, imprisoned, or dead.”
Saw clapped him hard on the back. “That’s the spirit, Has. But there’s more to it than that. To the Empire we’re nothing more than clots of dirt they’d kick from their boots. Even Salient is nothing more than a trial run. Not when the goal is subjugation on a galactic scale. And that’s where we come in, even if it’s just to rattle them some: to rebel against injustice.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“You have no idea what you’re fooling with. This is much bigger than me. This is much bigger than all three of us. I warned you not to go down this path.”
― James Luceno, Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

“My father’s revenge,” Jyn said. She resisted the urge to sneer. Her voice came out proud and defiant. “He built a flaw in the Death Star. He put a fuse in the middle of your machine and I’ve just told the entire galaxy how to light it.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“I don’t imagine,” Orson said, “you’ve laid any traps? Nothing that would harm a patriot doing his duty?”
“No.”
“No,” Orson agreed. “I’ve always found your constancy refreshing. Galen Erso is anhonestman, unaltered by stress or circumstance.”
Troopers called to one another in the house behind Galen, and he stifled the impulse to turn. “Honest, perhaps. Still just a man.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“I've never had the luxury of political opinions.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“For what is life but pilgrimage? And what is life but conflict?”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“The Force is with me, and I am with the Force. And I fear nothing, for all is as the Force wills it.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“History will forgive me or excoriate me, as is appropriate. I only wish it would forget me.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“If you found a place in the galaxy untouched by war—a quiet life, maybe with a family—if you’rehappy,Jyn, then that’s more than enough.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“He stood at a metaphorical cliff’s edge, stamping his foot in an effort to cause an avalanche. With Galen Erso’s treachery undone, he would gain the allegiance of Vader. With Vader’s backing, he would expose the incompetence of Tarkin—the revelation of rebel survivors from Jedha. With Tarkin humiliated, Krennic’s command of the Death Star would be uncontested, and he would confer with the Emperor himself as to how it might best be used.
Krennic would be, in every way that mattered, the most powerful and decorated man in the Empire.
Or he would fall from the cliff and bash his skull open on the rocks. And his Death Star would fall into the fumbling hands ofWilhuff Tarkin.
Tarkin, Erso, Vader—how had so many men conspired against him for so long?”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Jyn slammed her glass down on the table, ignoring the way the blue liquid foamed over the side. The damn rebels. Everywhere she went, they followed. Mucking it all up. Bringing the Empire down on the people who didn’t want to get involved. Why couldn’t people just bepeople?Why did they have to be on one side or another? If everyone would just stop caring so much, maybe the galaxy could actually find the peace everyone claimed they wanted.”
― Beth Revis, Rebel Rising

“He'd assassinated better men than Galen—an Imperial collaborator, the man who'd built a planet killer, remorse be damned. And if Jyn came after Cassian, he'd die for his crimes. There were worse deaths.
Was that what it had come to?
Galen stepped forward. Cassian had the shot.
But he was breathing too hard now. The rifle rose and fell. He clamped a hand on the barrel, lodged it firmly against the rocks.
He was tired of crimes he never answered for.
'The Death Star is your answer. Finish this mission, and all is forgiven.'
He looked at Galen Erso through his scope and saw his daughter's eyes.
With a hoarse and ragged cry, he swept the rifle away from the rocks and set it in the mud at his side.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“A dollop of heresy kept a person from getting too wrapped up in the particulars of tradition.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Make ten men feel like a hundred.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“Delay defeat long enough, and a triumph might eventually find its way home.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“There were degrees of treason, and some could never be forgiven.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“At the age of fifteen, during the winter when she’d discovered smashball, romance, and her parents’ profound imperfections, Mon Mothma had decided to devote her life to studying history; decided to turn her back on her family’s political dynasty and to spend her days in a cramped study reading thousand-year-old diaries and letters and cargo manifests until her eyes burned. She would be detective, coroner, and philosopher all at once, examining means and motive and cause of death for entire civilizations.
She hadn’t become a historian, of course. By the next summer, Mon’s moment of rebellion had been forgotten. Inertia and family pressures and a genuine love of governance had returned her to the road to politics. She’d gone on to become a senator (far too young, she thought now) and scrabbled for votes and smiled and kept her head above water until she’d learned how to play the game for real.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“This was not the fate Krennic had envisioned for Jedha. The Death Star was designed to obliterate worlds, not maim them. Yet he wondered if the moon would ever recover from such an attack, or whether the cascading effects of a burning atmosphere and broken crust would result in a tortuous death played out across millennia. He felt in his bones that his weapon had exposed something profound—about the nature of worlds, about their lifeblood and their death throes—though he could not have put it into words.Maybe,he thought,that’s what poets are for.”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

“There are other ways to “see” than with just eyes.”
― Ethan Sacks, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge

“How had so many men conspired against him for so long?”
― Alexander Freed, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story