# Shatterpoint: Star Wars Legends - Author: [Matthew Stover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover.md) - Quotes: 19 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends ## 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) > Our enemy is power mistaken for justice. Our enemy is the desperation that justifies atrocity. The Jedi's true enemy is the jungle. p. 410 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/our-enemy-is-power.md) > Do you solemnly swear to serve the Republic in thought, in word, and in deed; to defend its citizens, resist its enemies, and champion its justice with the whole of your heart, your strength, and your mind; to foreswear all other allegiances; to obey all lawful orders of your superior officers; to uphold the highest ideals of the Republic, and at all times to conduct yourself to the credit of the Republic as its commissioned officer, by witness of, aid from, and faith in the force? p. 213 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/do-you-solemnly.md) > The first thing they did was pick up survivors. Because we are equipment, too. As long as the Republic takes care of us, we'll take care of it. p. 411 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/the-first-thing.md) > The troopers had not been fighting for themselves; they knew their lives were over. But they had never stopped. They were fighting for the regiment. p. 337 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/the-troopers-had.md) > I gave them the word of a Jedi Master that if they surrendered I would keep them from harm. I will not be made a liar. p. 202 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/i-gave-them.md) > Mace flipped up a thumb. "You think being armed and ruthless means you can do whatever you want." He folded his thumb and flipped up his forefinger. "You think nobody will stand up to you when they're naked." He folded that one again and flipped up the next. "And you think you're going to look inside my bag." p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/mace-flipped-up-a-thumb.md) > Jedi are supposed to stand for something, aren't you? You're supposed to stand up for what's right. No matter what. p. 251 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/matthew-stover/shatterpoint-star-wars-legends/jedi-are-supposed.md)