# Matthew Stover - Quotes: 52 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover ## Books - [Blade of Tyshalle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/blade-of-tyshalle.md) — 25 quotes - [Heroes Die](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/heroes-die.md) — 2 quotes - [Shatterpoint: Star Wars Legends](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends.md) — 19 quotes - [Traitor: Star Wars Legends](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/traitor-star-wars-legends.md) — 6 quotes ## Recently added quotes > When you save someone's life. It's always temporary, y'know? p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/when-you-save.md) > "Depa is right: Jedi are insane." "Ever since I came to this planet, people have been telling me how crazy I am. They've told me this so many times that I had started to wonder if it might be true. Now, though, I understand: you don't say this because it's true. Not even because you think it's true. You say it because you hope it's true. Because if I am insane, you aren't really the revolting slime-hearted vermin that, down deep, you know you are." p. 286 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/depa-is-right.md) > When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint. p. 176 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/when-all-choices.md) > It dawned on me then that Nick was proud of himself. Proud of what we had done. It may have been an unfamiliar feeling for him: that peculiarly delicious pride that comes from having taken a terrible risk to do something truly admirable. Of overcoming the instinct of self-presrvation: of fighting our fears and winning. It is the pride of discovering that one is not merely a bundle of reflexes and conditioned responses; that instead one is a thinking being, who can choose the right over the easy, and justice over safety. p. 251 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/it-dawned-on-me-then.md) > "You're in the jungle, now. There are no rules." "Of course there are. Don't be an idiot." p. 206 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/youre-in-the.md) > We always volunteer, sir. All of us. It's who we are. p. 355 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/we-always-volunteer.md) > "They lit us up! Missiles incoming! Six count, closing, dead astern!" "Back-trace the missile lock and feed it to the computer for counter-fire." "Great idea! I'll get right on that first thing as soon as I graduate from gunnery school!" p. 330 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/they-lit-us-up-missiles.md) > "But... but... you can't fight the way things are..." "But we do. Every day. That's what Jedi are." "You can never win-" "We don't have to win. We only have to fight." p. 313 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/but-but-you.md) > If no mistake you have made, yet losing you are... a different game you should play. p. 150 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/if-no-mistake.md) > He was moderately sure that a thirteen-year-old boy who'd load up four other children and set out in a steamcrawler across the Korunnai Highland at night-a boy who'd rather die than leave an unconscious girl behind-had guts enough for just about anything. p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/he-was-moderately.md) > Mace stared at the man as though he'd never seen him before. And he hadn't: only now, finally, was he seeing him. An undistinguished little man: soft face and uncertain voice, shaky hands and allergies: an undistinguished little man who must have had resources of toughness that Mace could barely imagine. p. 17 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/mace-stared-at-the.md) > "I think that you are a very brilliant man. I think that you have more courage than you have ever guessed. I think that you truly care about this city, and the people in it. I think your cynicism is a fraud." "What-what-really, this is astonishing-" "I think that if you were truly as corrupt and venal as you pretend, you would be in the Senate." [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/i-think-that.md)