Matthew Woodring Stover Quotes

When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.

A pair of starfighters. Jedi starfighters. Only two.Two is enough.Two is enough because the adults are wrong, and their younglings are right.Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask--and to answer--the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer

That’s what getting old is: When you can no longer bear the consequences of being wrong.

Jacen reflected bitterly that a large part of growing up seemed to involve watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever changes back. That you can’t go home again.