Top 150 Chuck Wendig Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The rebellion is home to all kinds.”

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52. “A grotesque thought struck Benji: Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever. And in that fever, in that rising of global temperature, the earth was able to release new defenses. White Mask was not here to kill the world. It was here to kill the people – the fungus would serve as a vicious defense mechanism to eradicate the infection of humanity. This epidemic represented antibodies to restore balance to the body. Kill the parasite and save the host.”

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53. “Food for the native Ewoks.”

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54. “Chewie hugs him and purrs. “I’ll be back. We’re not done, you and I. We’ll see each other again. I’m gonna be a father and no way my kid won’t have you in his life.” One more bark and yip as Chewie pets his head. “Yeah, pal. I know.” He sighs. “I love you, too.”

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55. “Han grins and laughs and tries not to get crushed. “C’mon, Chewie. Set new coordinates. It’s time to get you home.”

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56. “We’re here to change the world, not participate in its tedium.”

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57. “Earth is home to more than twelve thousand species of ants. If you weighed all the ants and all the humans, the ants would weigh more.”

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58. “The Empire’s weapon may be destroyed, but the Empire itself lives on.”

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59. “It is our job to ruin the perfection of the empty page. It is our job to disrupt the status quo: because that’s what storytelling us. Taking a straight line and bending it, breaking it, shaping it into something far stranger and far greater.”

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60. “I am going to do what every wife must do now and again,” she says. “I am going to go rescue my husband.”

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61. “Thanks, Darth Obvious. Or is it Emperor Palpable?”

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62. “Now she thinks to go at this all by herself: a rogue element.”

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63. “No Sith remain,” Tashu says. “And the lone Jedi that exists – the son of Anakin Skywalker – possesses an untouchable soul.”

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64. “The Empire is in chaos. As the old order crumbles, the fledgling New Republic seeks a swift end to the galactic conflict. Many Imperial leaders have fled from their posts, hoping to escape justice in the farthest corners of known space.”

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65. “When they say to one another, ‘May the Force be with you,’ it is precisely this that they mean: It is a wish that when the time comes to leap into the void and to make a decision based on instinct and trust, you are rewarded for that act and not punished. The hope is that if you meet the galaxy halfway, it meets you in the middle and carries you the rest of the distance.”

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66. “The audience wants a safety blanket. It’s the storyteller’s job to take that safety blanket and choke them with it until they experience a profound narrative orgasm.”

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67. “The Empire must fall.”

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68. “Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever.”

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69. “But God was never about power over us. It was about the power we possessed to either be good and in His graces, or be selfish and wretched in His shadow. So to speak. Hell is being in that shadow. It’s not in the next world, but this one, right now, anytime you choose not to do the right thing.”

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70. “I’m old enough to remember when the Republic shot itself right in the knee. It wasn’t taken over by the Empire. It became the Empire slowly, surely, not overnight but over years and decades. Fruit always tastes nice when it’s ripe. But it can’t stay like that. Every nice piece of fruit will rot on the branch if it hangs there long enough. You remember that.”

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71. “Palpatine felt that the universe beyond the edges of our maps was where his power came from. Over the many years he, with our aid, sent men and women beyond known space. They built labs and communication stations on distant moons, asteroids, out there in the wilds. We must follow them. Retreat from the galaxy. Go out beyond the veil of stars. We must seek the source of the dark side like a man looking for a wellspring of water.”

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72. “Somehow, the remaining factions of the Empire are still fueling their war effort even months after the destruction of their second battle station.”

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73. “He was just another user claiming the mantle of a “Good Christian.” Like so many of the world bullies and abusers, choosing to find shelter in the faith – using their religiosity as both shield and sword.”

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74. “She gets on her tippy-toes and kisses him. Long, slow, deep. The kind of kiss where you can feel little pieces of your soul trading places as mouths open and breath mingles.”

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75. “Part of that bona fide Han Solo charm. He’s certainly handsome. A boyish rogue. Jas would, given half an invitation, mount him like a turret. Though.”

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76. “Stormtroopers were literally supposed to be within the same range of height and weight in part because of exactly that – he wasn’t joking when he said he was too tall to be a stormtrooper.”

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77. “He is less a human-shaped thing and more a pulsing, living band of light. Light that sometimes dims, that sometimes is thrust through with a vein of darkness. She tells herself that it’s normal – Luke said to her, Leia, we all have that. He explained that the brighter the light, the darker the shadow. Right.”

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78. “Way she sees it, people fall into one of two categories: those who think their death is imminent, and those who figure they have long, healthy lives ahead of them. Nobody ever thinks it’s somewhere in-between.”

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79. “Even if this thing takes down one percent of the global population – that’s seventy million people.”

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80. “In them and between them flourished the heat of life, the madness of love, and the sudden absolute certainty of the end of all that they knew.”

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81. “Failure has to be illuminating: an instruction manual written in scar tissue.”

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82. “Jas once heard the story that the Jedi constructed their own lightsabers and she figured, well, why can’t she do the same with her rifle? So she did. Because she can do whatever she wants.”

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83. “Every story’s trying to say something. It’s trying to beam an idea, a message, into the minds of the readers. In this way, every story is an argument. It’s the writer making a case.”

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84. “You didn’t change anyone’s mind about politics by hammering away at them – all that did was drive the nail deeper into the wall of their own certainty.”

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85. “And one by one, senators disgorge from their vessels, tainting this very nice world with the smug and indulgent cloud of politics and government.”

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86. “And the New Republic or the New-New Republic or the Republic We Got This Week will clamp down hard and then those people with the so-called better way will become the brave rebel alliance and the Republic will become the enemy and the wheel will turn once more.”

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87. “What’s come before will come back around again. Republic was the way of the world before, and it’ll be the way again. And for a time everyone will cheer them on, and everything will be cozy-dosie, but there will come a time when things go sour and someone decides they got a better way of doing things.”

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88. “War is not a state of being. It is meant to be a temporary chaos between periods of peace.”

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89. “Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity. – Terence McKenna.”

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90. “He watches a vid of Brin reading from the Journal of the Whills: “The truth in our soul, Is that nothing is true. The question of life Is what then do we do? The burden is ours To penance, we hew. The Force binds us all From a certain point of view.” Addar fails to understand what it means, but he admits: He enjoys listening to Brin.”

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91. “I can’t choose any one thing. Why do I have to live only one life and be resigned to doing one thing?”

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92. “So why, then, can’t Ackbar shake the feeling that once again they are about to fall into a trap?”

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93. “Did you know the Death Star had a bar? Ugly, austere little place – really like all Imperial architecture, ugh – and the selection of spirits was hardly commendable.”

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94. “Nothing except the desire between them, the ground below them, the night above.”

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95. “Hell, nobody’s okay. Maybe we never were, and we damn sure aren’t now. But we’re here. Until we’re not. And that’s all I find it fair to ask for.”

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96. “Don’t you dare say he’s going to be a bandit. He’ll be an angel.”

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97. “It was his idea, this run. Somehow, the remaining factions of the Empire are still fueling their war effort even months after the destruction of their second battle station. Wedge had the notion that they must’ve moved out to the Outer Rim – study your history and it’s easy to see that the seeds of the Empire grew first out here, away from the Core systems, away from the prying eyes of the Republic.”

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98. “I heard that if you complain it reprograms your brain like a computer virus and it just makes you more and more unhappy, so I’m going to stay positive because I bet the opposite is true, too.”

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99. “If ever she is to die, it should be out here, in space. Born from stardust, returned to stardust.”

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100. “That is war. It is the placement of ships. It is the advantages and disadvantages of those placements. It’s about how you move, how you fire, what weapons you bring. Every piece fits into the larger whole: ammunition in a blaster, blaster in a pilot’s hand, pilot inside a starfighter or frigate. Everything is a resource. How do you expend them? In what direction? At a distance, war is a game, however deadly – usher this ship there, that ship here, converge, fire, dominate, defend. But.”

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