Top 60 Delilah S. Dawson Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Respect the umlaut.”

— Delilah S. Dawson

2. “People were people, and they’d double-cross you or die on you no matter where they were from.”

— Delilah S. Dawson

3. “We need you strong, not skinny. Muscles and curves are all good here. Never make yourself smaller to suit someone who wants to feel big.”

— Delilah S. Dawson

4. “The Force is all around us,” she said. ” You don’t have to be sensitive to it to attract it, to be part of it. We’re all part of it. Some people are just... well, think of it like a butterfly landing on you. That doesn’t mean you’re a flower. It just means you smell sweet. It’s a good thing.”

— Delilah S. Dawson

5. “Armitage has to get ready. Kylo Ren doesn’t like to wait.”

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6. “Somewhere, deep behind my ribs, in a place I didn’t know existed, my heart opens up like one of those blooming tea bags, the ones that start out tiny and dark and then blossom like a flower. I’ve never let someone kiss me before. I’ve never let myself want to let it happen. It’s as unreal as everything else but far more welcome.”

— Delilah S. Dawson

7. “I’m a gypsy. A rogue. Wicked as they come.”

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8. “He smells of sweat and metal and that low and simmering rage that Vi has smelled on men all across the galaxy. As if his anger seeps out of his pores because he’s unable to focus it on its true target. This anger can destroy a man. Or it can be harnessed. Used. A tool for the greater good.”

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9. “Self-awareness had its downside, for he had lost the bliss of ignorance.”

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10. “It’s right there in the name. First Order. First, order. Fixing the mess left behind by the Republic and now the New Republic.”

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11. “Bazine Netal. You will retrieve a steel case last possessed by Imperial stormtrooper TK-1472. Human name: Jor Tribulus.”

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12. “Some villains, like Archex had been as Captain Cardinal, were conflicted, and Vi could carefully twist the key inside them until something clicked open. Some villains were just straight-up evil – like anyone with the last name Hux.”

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13. “In the moment you meet your mortal enemy, there is no speech you can make that will be more powerful than simply breathing after they have ceased to do so.”

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14. “In the dark of the night, we’re nothing but shadows. My feelings and thoughts are as tangled as unraveled yarn, loose ends and knots and bursts of violent color.”

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15. “When he glanced back at his twin, he saw that Offi’s general woe-is-me-for-I-am-a-tortured-soul-and-I-walk-the-world-alone face had been replaced by a brand-new by-dinkus-this-is-worrisome face.”

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16. “He would never be another Poe Dameron – -no one but Poe was Poe – – but the Resistance could use all the steady, bighearted people it could get.”

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17. “You aren’t small. You don’t have to make yourself small. You are allowed to have feelings. You are allowed to experience rage. You are allowed to take up space. You are allowed to be irrational and loud and ugly. You don’t have to make yourself less. Not ever again. You don’t have to play by those rules anymore.”

— Delilah S. Dawson

18. “There is no greater enemy to justice than a little king on a little hill.”

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19. “It is the rare leader who actively tries to improve the lives of his most vulnerable people. The usual condition of monarchs is to take bribes, reign over a slow tumble into chaos, and deflect blame.” – ARNO TUUTTI, in The Unexpected Insouciance of Anarcho-Syndicalism.”

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20. “Oh, well, you go to poor school.” He gives a comic eye roll. “At rich school, we take notes on hundred-dollar bills using unicorn tears, and our grief is vastly different and more complex.”

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21. “Even without his helmet, the man was a symphony in red.”

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22. “If I’d known it would be that good, I might not have resisted for so long.”

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23. “If she reached deep inside herself, what would she find? Not the Force, of course. But there was something there-an iron core. Determination. Tenacity. Stubborn persistence. She’d gotten herself out of that First Order interrogation chair, after all. She just had to live through one moment, and then the next, and then the next. She just had to keep going-until she had a better hand.”

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24. “That’s the problem with indoctrination – the whole point of the First Order’s kind of education is to stop someone from thinking and instead kick their emotions into gear. Make them hate everything else so they’ll cling to what you give them. It’s hard to think for yourself when fear and anger are driving the shuttle.”

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25. “Do you really want to know what it’s like, being a spy? Never sure to whom you’re giving your allegiance, and knowing that most of your colleagues will die gruesomely, often by your hand? Fine. Let me show you.”

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26. “That’s the problem with following all the rules – somebody else is eventually going to get ahead by breaking them, and then where will you be?”

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27. “Even in the low light, she could tell it was a protocol droid, and not one of the new, fancy ones. This one was skeletal and missing an arm, the barest sketch of a sentient being.”

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28. “May the spires keep you,” she called back to Grana. “Oh, go sit on a spire and twirl,” Grana replied.”

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29. “So on the way out, maybe I sashayed a little. Maybe I tried swinging my hips. Maybe I didn’t. It’s not a crime to feel pretty, after all.”

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30. “It is amusing, is it not, to want to be both found and forgotten at the same time?”

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31. “He was simply the most dangerous person in all the world; a person of small talent and large purse.”

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32. “I am surely miserable, and misery is a rainstorm. But this moment is an umbrella, a singular thing, a contained thing, a stolen thing, a world infinite in itself.”

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33. “It’s easy to be a hero when your own survival is aligned with someone else’s, when your victory is a victory for your entire clan.”

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34. “Vi scrambled over and knelt by Archex. He was waxen and pale and cold, and she slapped his cheeks and rubbed his hands with hers and said things ranging from, “Come on, Emergency Brake! Wake up! Don’t let the worm win!” to a more aggressive, “I swear that if you don’t wake up right now, I’m going to send you back to Cerea for another month of healthful stretching and drum circles!”

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35. “Unicorns aren’t magical and beautiful. They’re just predatory horses that have horns and love to eat virgins.”

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36. “It smelled of repressed desire and unwanted potatoes.”

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37. “Fia asked so many questions regarding what was and was not fried in animal fat that Toby cast an enchantment enrobing all the vegan items with a greenish glow.”

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38. “Only then could he have a sad waffle with no syrup on it for breakfast. He didn’t think his mother made them properly: rumor in the village had it that waffles weren’t supposed to be gray.”

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39. “Sometimes the Force challenges us,” the older woman said. “And we don’t find out until later why we had to suffer. Every setback contains hidden blessings.”

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40. “No people. You get close to them, and they die or disappear. You kiss them, just for fun, and they tie you to the bed and steal your creds. They’re messy. Stupid. Foolish.”

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41. “By the time she’d run to the edge of the crater, Bazine’s mentor and once-friend was climbing over the edge, bruised and scratched up but mostly unharmed.”

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42. “But I’m knitting for anarchy.”

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43. “I’ve never walked on sand,” Torben noted. “What’s it like?” Phasma’s people looked to her, but she nodded to Brendol. “It shifts under your feet. Coarse and rough. Irritating. Gets everywhere. Slips into your clothes and boots.”

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44. “Someone’s died,” a young man answered. “Lucky him,” remarked the old man.”

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45. “The night was young, and Bazine Netal was hunting.”

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46. “Good news arrives with TV cameras and big, brightly painted vans. Bad news arrives quietly, in dark sedans with black windows.”

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47. “Why is it that when men act out it’s always someone else’s fault?”

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48. “Never make yourself smaller to suit someone who wants to feel big.”

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49. “And I did what I had to do to get to me as well. I don’t regret it. That’s the difference between us. I know what I am, and I embrace it. I’m proud of it. I fought for everything that I have, every bit of what I am. Now that you see what you are, you despise it. You’re ashamed. And look where that’s gotten you.”

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50. “In a singsong voice, Gosta chanted, “If you get the smallest wound Better tell your Mama soon Edges red and skin gone white Gonna lose a toe tonight. Don’t tell Mama and you’ll see Wound goes putrid, dead you’ll be.”

— Delilah S. Dawson