Top 50 E.K. Johnston Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My hands are yours,” she said. “Please don’t ask me for them again.”

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2. “She gave him a smile. It felt absurdly nice to be taken care of. Maybe that was what she needed, even if she didn’t need it very often.”

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3. “People will say you’re coping wrong, but really there’s no wrong way. Anything that lets you keep going is the right thing, as long as it’s not damaging. You need to find the way that works for you.”

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4. “On a dusty world with two bright suns, a little boy looked up from his work and saw an angel.”

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5. “Watch your world burn, light of my heart. Tomorrow we will find another one and burn that too.”

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6. “One of the problems with spending a lot of time with an astromech droid was that one tended to continue talking to it even when it was no longer there to talk to.”

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7. “She went through her days trying not to think about her loss, lest her grief incapacitate her, but that just meant that every time it came up, it hurt like new.”

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8. “Master Obi-Wan would have tried to charm himself through and would invariably have ended up making as much noise as Anakin anyway.”

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9. “We are brave, your highness.”

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10. “Of course, if I were dead, they could just bury me, and move on. Broken is harder to deal with.”

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11. “If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.”

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12. “I’ve fought evil, and it was easy: I shot it. It’s apathy I can’t stand.”

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13. “I’m near hysteria, I can feel it. I’m going to scream and scream and scream to make up for the screaming I didn’t do last night. I am going to pull my skin off and grind it into the floor and then I’m going to cry until I’ve got nothing less.”

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14. “Um koji zna zatvoren je um.”

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15. “The sword fighting turned out to be quite a bit of fun, once the agony of muscle development produced actual muscles.”

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16. “Do not forget, I have had nothing to do for most of my life except sit idle in a tower where I can see my kingdom and not help it. My suffering is different from yours, and maybe it is less, but it is mine, and I will not listen to you belittle it.”

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17. “The fiery ones do not marry young” he said. “They wait for fire to match their own. I did not see that in your village.” “My sister finds the fire in others,” I said. “Her husband may be the quietest man at the market until he sees her. Then he will burn with a flame to match her own.”

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18. “My sister burns, and she does not burn for you.”

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19. “He’d gone to Shmi Skywalker’s grave to apologize for losing her son.”

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20. “I do not want to be anyone’s model for becoming a better person. “Can.”

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21. “Most postmodernists blame the decline of the draconobardic tradition on the sudden and soaring popularity of the Beatles.”

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22. “There’s a lot to be said for being yourself. Not everyone is meant to be a shadow.”

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23. “When he had the dream on Alderaan, he would get Leia out of her bed, hold her close to his chest, and hope against hope that she exhibited only her mother’s gifts, not her father’s.”

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24. “That was where he was wrong. She wasn’t weaponless. No Jedi ever was.”

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25. “Any path can be a poor one if it goes blindly in one direction.”

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26. “You have to remember every piece that’s been played, even the ones removed from the board, because some of them might count against you in the end.”

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27. “My sister is no fool and she is not tender-hearted,” I said. “My sister fights for her home, and takes what risks she must. That is why I put myself before her today – why I would not let you have her. My sister burns, and she does not burn for you.”

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28. “What troubled her was that she had always thought of herself as a straightforward and honest person. Yes, she kept secrets, but they were for the sake of her planet, her people. And there were always some who knew the whole story. Now her truths were split, divided amongst those she cared about, and none of them had the whole picture. Only she did, alone and at the center of her own life.”

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29. “But I have faith in you. You seem like the type who eats fear for breakfast.”

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30. “It’s not the same.” She holds the stack of cones in her hand and leans back against the stage looking at me with a serious face. “You and i, we’re not the same. Not even close. I said yes, and you didn’t even get asked the question.”

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31. “There’s two kinds of family,” Miara said after a moment. “There’s the kind like me and Kaeden, where you get born in the right place to the right people and you’re stuck with one another. If you’re lucky, it turns out okay. The other kind of family is the kind you find.”

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32. “Chenna says that well-traveled people always believe more things,” Hedala said matter-of-factly. “They have seen more, so they have bigger imaginations.”

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33. “My hands are yours for as long as you need them.”

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34. “She chose to fight men everyday, and then fight their sons, who thought they knew better than their fathers.”

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35. “If someone starts throwing around stupid words like ‘its a gift’ or ‘its in God’s plan’, you come right here, and i’ll find you ten ways in which it isn’t.”

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36. “I didn’t used to overthink my choices quite so much. Then someone made what I’ve always been told is a very important choice for me, and now I tend to overthink everything else.”

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37. “How many of the younglings had been murdered by a man wearing a face they implicitly trusted? And how did the clones feel after it was done? She knew the Temple had burned; she had received the warning not to return. But she didn’t know where any of her friends had been during the disaster. She knew only that she couldn’t find them afterward, that her sense of them was gone, as if they had ceased to exist.”

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38. “When Ahsoka opened her hands, she was not surprised to find that two lightsabers, rough and unfinished, were waiting. They would need more work, but they were hers. When she turned them on, they shone the brightest white.”

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39. “It was strange, to love two people so much, so differently. She didn’t quite understand it, and she wasn’t sure how to make it work.”

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40. “I hate to be sanctimonious about it, but it turns out that good conversation solves a great many problems.”

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41. “Our father would return to see his fairest flower gone and only the weed left for him to use as he saw fit.”

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42. “Raada was a tedious little place, but it would serve its purpose. The Empire would get what it wanted and then be on its way. The farmers would have their freedom again, for all the good it would do them. They really should have thought of the risks before they became farmers. Jenneth turned a blind eye to his part in their incipient suffering, a privilege that came with never really having suffered.”

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43. “There is life, and there is living – and that is what she learned.”

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44. “He was the soul of politeness, my husband.”

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45. “The problem was that politicians wrote so many things down, and then Obi-Wan had to read them, because his master had a feeling that something was coming. Qui-Gon had a deeply annoying habit of bein correct about this sort of thing, which was one of the reasons Obi-Wan hadn’t mutinied. Well, that and because he’d tried something very like mutiny once, and it hadn’t gone well.”

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46. “Maybe he is starting to understand. I don’t really care, though. I do not want to be anyone’s model for becoming a better person.”

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47. “Good men fall to monsters every day.”

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48. “Jenneth turned a blind eye to his part in their incipient suffering, a privilege that came with never really having suffered.”

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49. “There’s a moment when I know that I should scream. But screaming would be hard. And blackness would be easy. Black picks me.”

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50. “People are listening,” Bonteri said. “They’re just not paying attention.”

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